Word: begining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...readjust in 1920 balance his books, write off his losses, take bankruptcy if necessary, squeeze the water from his company and hold his employes in service until it hurts. (This last is especially applicable to the railroads.) With our feet again on solid ground we can begin to climb safely. We have had quite enough of mental suggestion and absent treatment-let us rather call in old Dr. Adam Smith.* JOHN E. FIELD...
Training Schools. He said: "I think much of the criticism of Prohibition in the U. S. is due to blunders and misconduct of agents and investigators. ... On Sept. 1 we will begin training in Washington 24 picked men as instructors. . . . On Oct. 1, two of these graduates will be sent to each administrative circuit ... to train the agents to act always as gentlemen . . . [and] to aid in the building up of an esprit de corps by showing the agents that the business of detecting crime is a profession in itself, in which a person may take pride...
This year stalwart Jerusalem Jews collected bludgeons, rocks and in a few cases firearms, to carry under their talithim (praying shawls) as they went at sundown to begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking...
Knowing that Old Paul was about to begin a triumphal tour of the liberated Rhineland, Dr. Otto Braun, Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, refused to relax his rule that Stahlhelm members may not parade or demonstrate in Rhenish Prussia, which includes such an important city as Coblenz. "This is unequal treatment which I find unbearable!" wrote the President to Dr. Braun last week and threatened to omit Prussia's end of the Rhineland from his tour...
...utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong in the kind of market he has to deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million. Of not particularly stern moral fibre, he lets his good fortune unravel him further. His wife leaves him. he becomes a come-on for many, especially chorus wenches with necks for neck- laces...