Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Followed the wrangling and financial difficulties of a young republic, but Houston proved himself as excellent an administrator as general, dealt firmly with domestic problems, juggled adroitly the jealous rivalries of England, France...
Unfortunately, he felt, the voyage kept him away from the 15th annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council at Houston last week. He had founded the organization and never before had failed its meetings. And this one was especially important because it dealt with U. S.-Latin America trade relations. Fourteen hundred delegates were at Houston. Don Carlos G. Davila, Ambassador from Chile to the U. S. flew by airplane from Montgomery, Ala., to Houston to impress on the U. S. businessmen there the wisdom of investing in Latin American companies, and leaving the Latin Americans in control...
...John D. Ryan to manage the properties of the Amalgamated Copper Co. in Montana and to fight the late Fritz Augustus Heinze for control of the Montana copper-industry. Manager Ryan won his fight. When Henry Rogers died, in 1909, Ryan became president of the Amalgamated. Next year he dealt with Montana copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after a proper interval he became president, then chairman, of Anaconda. During little more than ten years he has built the company's assets up to more than half...
...sort of thing that is bound to happen every so often south of the Potomac, where old hearts still harbor a bitterness elsewhere forgotten. The incident summarily dealt with by the Speaker would have attracted small notice but for one factor: among the contributors to the pamphlet was Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Onetime (1888-1919) President, now President Emeritus, of William and Mary College, Dr. Tyler is a son of John Tyler. John Tyler was tenth President of the U. S. Since the death of Robert Todd Lincoln (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926), Dr. Tyler is the oldest living...
...expects to make less material supply more men. Not only will much of the equipment be able to be saved from year to year, but a portion of it may be used for several sports. The central supply room will enable authorities to keep better trace of the outfits dealt out, and the needs of each team will be more adequately cared...