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...physical and psychological difference between men & women. Men can fight things out in perfectly dispassionate fashion. You can say to a man 'I thoroughly disagree with your judgment.' But you disagree with a woman's judgment and you disagree with the woman." To the dis- tress of the women and their clerical allies, the objectors won. Commented the Rev. Leland Stark of Washington, B.C.: "Every argument used against this resolution was urged against suffrage." Said...
...company started on $2,600 capital, it has never failed to pay off an investor. It has not only weathered wars, depressions and bank runs, but some ill winds which blew it good. In 1943, when SEC brought suit to compel I.D.S. to follow a policy of "full dis- osure," stressing objections as well as advantages to its savings plans, I.D.S. discovered that underselling actually boosted its business. After hearing all the disadvantages (low interest, losses on early cash-ins, etc.), cautious investors felt that candid I.D.S. was a company they could trust...
...ahead, its exhaust pipes exposed for all admiring eyes to see. There are even some, as delicately geared as Author Purdy, who can close their eyes and "imagine a string-straight, poplar-lined Route Nationale in France on a summer's day. That growing dot in the middle dis tance is a sky-blue Bugatti coupe, rasping down from Paris to Nice at no miles an hour...
Outcast of the Islands. Joseph Conrad's hothouse drama of a white man's dis integration in the tropics, strikingly directed by Carol (The Third Man) Reed; with Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley (TIME, April...
...faculty: they have studied and tried their best to present the facts to their students. And--you must have in mind another factor. That Mr. Fairbank has just as much of a right to hold the opinions he has as Mr. Dwelly. It is a most tasteless and dis-considerate--not to say intolerant--attitude to insult him on this account...