Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nobly upheld in war, be cast aside when the external danger threatening the nation ceases? True it is that Mr. Gary and his associates of the United States Steel Company have not been tactful in dealing with the demands of the organized steel workers. But that is hardly reason enough for the latter to strike, especially when asked to delay action by the President of the United States. Until some satisfactory arrangement can be made some of our leading statesmen tell us that there will be no peace in the world until every nation gives up a part...
...abiding citizens want an efficient police force. All thoughtful people realize that a police force cannot be efficient if underpaid and overworked. If this were the issue at hand, the public would agree absolutely with the demands of the policemen, who assert with reason that they are underpaid and overworked. But these policemen were not alone satisfied in bettering their condition. They have opposed local police force rules by affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. In so doing the strikers did not realize the great responsibility of their position nor did they regard the laws of their department governing...
...profession? There is no occupation more dignified, more remunerative. It is probably true that more high-calibre men are entering the financial field than any other, and that many men, some of them trained in the professions, are are leaving their callings to enter upon this work. The reason is found in the fact, that opportunities for affluence and development are greater along financial lines than along any other. Returns to the government on income tax statements show that a greater percentage of men in the province of finance pay income taxes than in any other line of endeavor...
There is always a great economic need for fresh capital, and just now the work of supplying enterprise with needed money, by reason of post-war conditions, takes on new importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investments. The sales capacity of the house runs into millions annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increase this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled...
...territory than at Cambridge. In the deciding contest with Princeton, in which the Orange and Black cheering section was on its feet shouting continuously for the last three innings, he allowed but three hits. Today, even with stronger opposition from the lusty throats of Yale graduates, there is no reason why we may not expect as fine a performance. And if the team wins today what may we not expect tomorrow, when the most lively procession of graduates that Harvard has every mustered streams up to Soldiers Field...