Word: developed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have engaged in numerous conferences with important business leaders and public officials with a view to the coordination of business and governmental agencies for continued business progress . . . . I am calling, for the middle of next week, a small preliminary conference of representatives of industry, agriculture and labor . . . to develop certain steps...
...problem of coaching the House athletic groups is going to be of great importance. And it seems to me that Harvard can profit materially by the experience of her parent university, both as to what might be imitated and what avoided. On the one hand, if the Houses develop fourth, fifth, and even more teams in various sports, as is to be hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics in the hands of the several captains...
...namely, sportsmanship and all that the term implies, exercise, recreation, social intercourse and competition. But at the same time the Department realizes that these benefits will not be gained merely through participation in the various activities. It takes the attitude that it must teach sportsmanship, intensify exercise, enhance recreation, develop social intercourse and stimulate keen competition. Furthermore, the extent to which the program is successful is not determined by the number of participants but by the final results of the encouragement of these benefits. That is why an attempt is made to obtain instructors and coaches who, by example...
...showing the Democratic tie-up with the stockmarket. James J. Riordan, president of the New York's County Trust Co., close personal friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, committed suicide with a revolver. For a whole day the news was suppressed lest a run on the County Trust develop. Ill health and mental derangement were given as the official reasons but stockmarket losses were suspected, admitted. Mr. Raskob was named acting chairman of the bank, which auditors quickly pronounced "in perfect condition...
...absence from metropolitan diversions and advantages forces the members of the smaller community to develop their own resources. Besides preserving these opportunities, a plan for knitting the small college more closely into the educational fabric by exchanging professors with larger institutions would give the men from the more central institutions a chance to view their own educational problems free from the distracting activities of the higher pressure university...