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Wages in the steel industry are not coming down." He argued against any wage-reductions: "It is my deliberate judgment that a general reduction of wages in this country would set back the impending recovery by at least two years." Alert listeners realized that this viewpoint directly opposed that expressed by Albert Henry Wiggin when he spoke to Chase National Bank's stockholders last fort night (TIME, Jan. 19). "Dead Centre." Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, also had a brief word to say last week. Members of New York State Bankers...
...thus far sent a questionnaire to the children, and the annoyances suffered by the little innocents remains an undetermined factor. To make such a survey fair and just, and free from political corruption, moreover, is a task for the infant Hercules. But in a moment of hasty judgment, seizing on boldness, here is the advice. Let the research workers and the parents enter the kindergarten, and some youthful prodigy, it may be warranted, will make a survey to startle the world...
...such a pitch that it sheers off into a third party (Roosevelt in 1912; La Follette in 1924"). Normally it works within the party organization. Insurgent Republicans expect their party to advance them to important posts but feel no obligation to render party support in return. Exercise of free judgment is their great tenet...
...fond of doing, like dirt. Jo was an introspective egoist and not much fun for those around him. When he discovered Tillie, a retired dancer still aching from her last affair, he welcomed her as a wanted complication. Then, against his will (he had no judgment) he found himself taking her seriously. Incapable of fidelity at his best, he went through all the contortions of betrayal, attempting even the wife of a best friend. A simplicist would say that Jo was his-own-worst enemy. His sadistic self-torturings finally landed him in a pretty mess: still completely married, practically...
...learns something of his own accord retains his knowledge much longer and has a much clearer idea of the subject. In the training of the mind this voluntary learning has a definite advantage since the student has to choose his own subjects for study and must then exercise judgment...