Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reason that:-Rules of Business Conduct are necessary to preserve stabilized conditions and to prevent lopsided prosperity within the Industry (we have four one-sentence rules...
...stock exchange, where the almost incredible number of 16,338,000 shares of U. S. Industry & Commerce were dumped as if they were so much junk. The day's transactions, including odd lots and other exchanges, undoubtedly exceeded 30,000.-ooo shares. Necessity, perhaps, but not Reason ruled...
When in 1914 Tom Mercer Girdler went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
...opportunity for a constructive theatrical movement at Harvard is undoubtedly large, and there is every reason to believe that, should some purely dramatic movement get started, it would meet with success. It is not that the Dramatic Club is inherently inefficient, but that the very nature of such a large organization dependent on gate receipts, prevents them from devoting their entire attention to producing plays whose only recommendation is dramatic excellence. If a movement should be developed which would not find it necessary to be greatly concerned with financial gain and the inclusion of many members in the casts...
...Dartmouth games were those held by the Brighton force as evidence of the unpermitted occupation of city streets. The plain clothes men cannot convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must wait until they see the tickets change hands to place the speculator under arrest. For this reason, many of the professional men go free, but as they turn the ticket number over to the Athletic Association in return for money, the student selling them it almost always blacklisted...