Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Edward Reynolds, 62, vice president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.; at New Rochelle, N. Y.; after a long illness. So that Postal employes would save their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership...
...many months the Eastern consolidation struggle has resembled a chess tournament in which a master plays several opponents simultaneously. Shrewd, lean, aggressive William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania is the chess wizard. Three boards confront him. Behind one sits quiet-voiced Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central; behind the second sits energetic Daniel Willard of the B. & O.; behind the third sit the chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master...
...Germans themselves are short-sighted enough to desire freedom from supervision, even at great cost. A bank which may some day rule the world's finance is a tied-up asset compared with the solid relish of being master in one's own house...
Formerly all candidates for the Master's degree were required to have an elementary knowledge of French and German, but under the new plan the graduate school rules will conform with those of the College...
...great Charlottenburg station that police officials persuaded the Mayor to continue on to the station near the Zoological Gardens. Another crowd, just as loud, waited there, booing industriously. Forming a flying wedge, a cordon of leather-shakoed Schupos* hustled Bürgermeister Boess and wife into the station master's office, then spirited them away through a back door to their home...