Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, the statue of John Harvard could do with little polishing or a cost of paint. We couldn't come out flatly and ask the Cambridge school Committee members with real estate valued at $2.409,873.59 to give Harvard a donation. But a word to the wise is sufficient...
...even wise Dr. Jackson could resist a long toot on the horn of international brotherhood. Last week he joined Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller, able Manhattan dermatologist and Director-General of the Association, in calling the cruise "a dramatic and remarkably successful step in the establishment of permanent goodwill between the Americas...
...principle that they should not be dictated to by one union and that the workmen be freed from outside coercion. On this point the motor executives won out, but labor, on the other hand, managed to get the process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...
...Firm, courteous, patient, wise, he has made the strenuous service of the College a satisfaction never to be forgotten by his associates in this board...
Episcopal churchmen tell of how Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, lately made a visitation in one of his parishes. Getting out of his automobile he carefully locked its doors. "Don't bother to lock your car, Bishop," said the senior warden. "We're all honest around here." Sharply retorted Bishop Hobson: "Oh, no, you're not! You've been using your missionary money to pay your coal bill...