Word: broker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Morris is, in ordinary life, a hustling and successful broker on the Boston Curb Exchange, and in addition has been a member of the State Legislature, representing old Ward 15 in 1915 and 1916, and in 1917-1918 serving in the Massachusetts Senate representing new Wards 9, 10, 11. Upon being asked by a CRIMSON reporter the origin of his scoring system and how he had become interested in the work, he replied...
...chief direct service was that he served as a Fellow in the Corporation for twenty-six years, 1893-1919, with the utmost punctuality, assiduity, and devotion, and with high intelligence. Why was he chosen a member of the Corporation? Not because he was a successful banker and broker of State Street. Far from it. He was chosen because he was as fine an exemplar of the patriotic citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds...
Those who have sent in their names in the last two days include a bookseller, a cranberry grower, a librarian, a machinist, and a retired business man. There are numerous stenographers, clerks, lawyers, social workers, and nurses. The list includes a woman telegrapher and a real estate broker; a writer and an electrical tester; a salesman and a reporter; a hotel housekeeper and at least one "wife and mother." Teachers, of course, are in the majority. The students include graduates of Harvard and numerous other colleges...
...doubtful value. It is hoped that all such offers will be disregarded. Liberty Bonds are the best investment in the world, and should be kept. In case it becomes imperative to sell a Liberty Bond, there can be no objection, but it should be sold through a reputable broker. It should not be exchanged for other securities, nor for merchandise. LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF NEW ENGLAND, J. K. ALLEN, Executive Manager, Publicity Committee...
...knowledge that we are called upon to fight as a nation in arms, rather than as an honest broker for braver peoples, may work some havoc to our calm peace, and our pride in our fat prosperity. But we will gather from that knowledge a new consciousness of our former strength. We will awaken to the call for sacrifice, and give our very utmost for that cause which we have undertaken...