Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special meeting of the? stockholders of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana . . . to express themselves in regard to your suggested resignation. If this plan is to be followed, I have no doubt hat you will have the thirty-day call issued at once and that you will wish to write me that this has been done."?Stockholder Rockefeller to Board Chairman Stewart, April...
...World after a witch's Sabbatical, they told me I should blow off steam in The Nation. They told me there was no governor on that steam. Previously the World maintained its right to censor what I wrote for them. Now it wants to censor what I write elsewhere. After the tradition of Uncle Tom, I can still say that, while my body may have belonged to the Press Publishing Company, my soul belonged...
...Howe! When spring comes to Manhattan, the theatre season dies. Its swan song is heard, drifting slyly into the noisy streets, from playhouses wherein musical shows now blossom brightly in the dark. This one was written by famed Roger Wolfe Kahn who again displays his competence to write songs which, though they may be faintly derivative, are gay and engaging. The action is well cared for by Allen Kearns; he is required to represent a character whose name, as may be guessed, is an Indian greeting and who loses his love and gains her again with nonchalant devices of gallantry...
...when the clash of mighty opposites is o'er, when the heroes of the day, tired, "but happy," have been carried from the field on the shoulders of frenzied alumni, a hush as of twilight will fall on the old locker building, and someone will say "Write not, like the Great Scorer, if they won, but how they played the Game...
...have been asked to write the chapters on North America and the West Indies, and have secured the cooperation of Dr. C. F. Brooks '12 of Clark University in carrying out this heavy task. We two cannot possibly gather all necessary data, and it is here that the Milton Award will be of great assistance. Through it we have already secured two assistants, one to go to Mexico City, the other to Toronto, to gather information and copy data in those cities. The Milton Fund will also cover expenses for the drawing of new charts and diagrams. This award...