Word: concernments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...United States cannot, therefore, fail to view with deep concern any serious threat to stability and constitutional government in Nicaragua tending toward anarchy and jeopardizing American interest, especially if such state of affairs is contributed to or brought about by outside influences or by any foreign power...
...note (mortgage), bearing good interest, to the retail dealer. The dealer sells the customer's note to a credit finance organization for less than its full value, that is, at a discount. This organization in turn may want ready money for fresh purchases of mortgages. If such concern has been investigated, approved and licensed by the American Rediscount Corp., it will be able to get the cash readily. This is just what the Federal Reserve banks do for ordinary commercial paper. But the American Rediscount Corp. will be able to go further. A private corporation, it can make transactions...
...subjects with which the Conference is most likely to concern itself," added Professor Young, "are tariffs and industrial combinations. Different as these two subjects are in most respects they have certain elements in common. The present obstacles to industrial progress in Europe are such as might exist in the United States if every state in the United States had its own protective tariff and if industrial companies found it difficult to operate with more than some one state. Efficient industrial organization calls for larger markets than the petty national economic units into which Europe is split up can now provide...
...shares changed hands. This is mysterious because only 200,000 Baldwin Locomotive shares exist, and of these only 30,000 to 35,000 are floating on the market. The situation carried the stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain. In the month of November I took orders for four miles of locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market corner in Baldwin. I laughed...
...into American education which will cause. American students to give more attention to the great problems of political, social and religious life which confront us today. For any careful observer must admit that there is taking place before our very eyes a disintegration of standards which must give great concern unless we know the direction in which we are moving and the foundations which we are laying...