Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the supervision of W. P. Cutter. Most of the existing classifications of such material were developed before business came to be conceived of as a science or a field of study, and before any large literature had been developed in that province. The new classification, for which financial support is being supplied by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation, is being prepared with the collaboration of librarians in charge of special business material, such as those in libraries of New York banking institutions...
...furnishing of the rooms as varied as possible, especially since the rooms will be occupied by the same man for three years in succession. The difficulties in the way of achieving a goal of real individuality for each suite are largely financial and the House Masters deserve all support possible in whatever opposition they may meet from the Bursar's office in its ultimate achievement. The rugs, which it is proposed to rent to House Members, for instance, should be sufficiently varied in design to allow of real selection and no sacrifice be made to the economies to be derived...
...large number of cases; and the tutors connected with the House will be one of the ties that bind the community there together into an academic unity. Something will also be gained by attaching to each House a few professors who do not tutor, but will give it their support and be occasionally present at its table...
...Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would connect two powerful allies, the Great Northern and the Western Pacific. Vigorously fighting these two roads on the question of the new line...
...Capital Corp. which recently failed, attributing its collapse to low levels of bank stocks. Investigation indicated that Bankers' Capital, instead of dealing in bank stocks, formed affiliated companies, buying stock in one and then selling it at a profit to another. In turn the affiliates used their resources to support the market in Bankers' Capital stock. From this procession of intramural deals Bankers' Capital last year earned enough to pay a special dividend of $17 a share ($2,000,000). Outstanding stock of Bankers' Capital and affiliated companies came...