Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concluded the ruling, "that the investor in the petitioner's stock has no assurance that the company will be able to increase its rate of dividends in the near future, or, in fact, will be able to maintain the increased rate of dividends recently voted. Thus in our judgment, the approval of the company's proposal at this time, would have little, if any, effect in causing a wider distribution of its stock among investors. Such as would occur would, in our opinion, be to the disadvantage of the investor...
...Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, whose judgment and ability is highly respected by his associates. I know whereof I speak in this matter because I have been President of Public Service for more than 26 years-ever since its formation-and am a director and member of the Executive Committee of the United Gas Improvement Company...
...football the problem is a little more difficult, because there is involved the question of withdrawing men who have been more or less injured in play and the substitution of others for them. This situation is thought, with a good deal of justice, to call at times for judgment more objective and intelligent than the players themselves under the excitement of the moment are always able to command. To turn the supervision of this matter over to medical officers is to invite the suspicion that they are merely carrying out a coach's instructions. Nevertheless, I am sure that...
...liberty to make up my mind for myself. Whether I like it or not, I am prepared to promise, that I will not seek to force my opinion on anyone else. What I resent is the attempt of a handful of officials to dictate the tastes and artistic judgment of the whole community...
...insisted that his company did not wish the conference to fail, but was interested in knowing if cruiser reductions were to be made. He thought Shearer was paid too much, that his "ordinary business judgment had been disarmed" by Shearer's plausibility. Shearer's reports had been full of "bunk." He had only glanced at two or three, and when he learned of Shearer's big-navy propaganda he had insisted on his discharge. Mr. Bardo admitted that Shearer was later re-employd by Laurence Russell Ilder on a project for building liners to cross the Atlantic in four days...