Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that material prosperity cannot be secured unless it rests upon spiritual realities it is impossible to create a commercial system which is not built on credit, confidence, and faith. Without the elements of honor and honesty there can be no economic advance. If the requirements of character be withdrawn from our business structure the whole fabric would collapse. IF AMERICA IS ADVANCING ECONOMICALLY. IT IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEP RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS OF ITS PEOPLE...
...exploited by Fascismo and swastika, by trade union and international, by militarist and pacifist. As a result he is either enlisted in these camps and immediately formed into the flying squadron as an active participant in the movement, or by violent reaction against such exploitation he has withdrawn either into quasi-Oriental mysticism or the idealistic medieval romance of the wandering student of old. Such movements have practically no counter-part in the United States. In spite of capitalist and Communist the American college student is still remote from current world movements. In his leisure day he is chiefly concerned...
...Sport of Kings. Ian Hay (Beith) is not now so well known as he was during the War. His battle writings roused interest in his novels; his lectures spread the advertisement. Of late he has withdrawn somewhat from the general consciousness. He returns with a chaotic farce about betting on horse races. It is not likely to add to his repute...
...that the general strike is over, the workers have gained more by the terms of its settlement than they originally asked. They have been guaranteed that there would be no further wage reduction, the lockout order would be withdrawn, and a commission with delegates from the miners appointed to work out a plan of reorganization in the mining industry...
...Rockefeller Jr. last week withdrew his offer to build in Cairo and endow a ten-million-dollar "Temple of the Unfolding Life of Man." A finishing touch to the farce was added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings and entanglements?Premier Ziwar Pasha was reported to have offered the ingenious statement: " . . . . unfortunately, before action could be taken, we were informed that Mr. Rockefeller...