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...includes men of whom the general public rarely hears: William Henry Albers, president of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., a chain rapidly spreading over the country; Harold O. Barker of Jessup & Lament, classed in Wall Street with J. S. Bache & Co. as the largest of purely stock brokerage houses; John Hanes Jr. of Chas. D. Barney & Co., large brokerage and underwriting house; Robert Lehman of Lehman Bros...
Soon buglers sounded the calls requested by the Archbishop; but most touching of all was the playing by Scotch bagpipers of an old lament which was the favorite of Britain's greatest War hero, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, Laird of Bemersyde (TIME, Feb. 6, 13). Softly the pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest"; and British lips repeated afterwards the motto of the House of Haig: What e're betide, What e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde...
Last week General Adolfo de la Huerta, once for a brief time Provisional President of Mexico, now in bitter exile at Los Angeles, Calif., said: "I lament the passing of Obregon, because I would have liked to have had him live long enough to pay for his many sins...
...intense individualism. The curse of it is that it is intolerant individualism. Individualism at its best can be evidence of highly developed democracy; but in Harvard individualism there is little democratic feeling. By democratic feeling I do not mean glad-handing collegiatism and sartorial standardization. Few lament the lack of those things. And it must be admitted that individualism could not exist without a certain amount of tolerance. But for all that we have our intellectual snobs, and our athletic snobs, and our social snobs, and our anti-social snobs, and there is little democracy in us. We pursue...
...lead, never follow), yet they have been closely connected with Japan's international financing and the bond salesmen who sallied out of those 30 company offices last week with Tokyo Electric Light mortgage bonds carried on their banners a legend of Japan phrased by Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Said he last October, just as he was completing a visit of inspection over the country and its possessions: "We believe in Japan; we believe in her peaceful intentions; we believe in her courage, her patience, her faith and her loyal friendship for America...