Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having just concluded the fiftieth year of active business in the steel industry, in the natural course of events, I do very little except touch the high spots now, and have implicit confidence in the person I always speak of as 'my boy'-although he is not a boy any more-to carry on the work of the Bethlehem Company better than I was ever able to carry it on; so that I am very happy in placing practically the entire responsibility with reference to everything pertaining to the Bethlehem company in Mr. Grace's hands...
...library at Sandringham. Glowingly Sir George relates how in the latter years of the War he often heard discontented Tommies complain that the Monarchy was not absolute enough. "The talk in barrack rooms," he writes unctuously, "struck the note of unswerving loyalty not to the Constitution but to the person of the King. . . . It might have been comparatively easy at that moment to set up an absolute Dictatorship...
...newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders of far from championship calibre. Ordinary business policy should warn...
Keith-Albee--Lucky Star (Charles Farell and Janet Gaynor). Charles Murray in person...
...again. Even the most infallible judge in a dean's office must realize that there are times when mistakes in judgment are impossible to avoid, and even when there is no mistake made in closing a student's connection with a college the whole future life of a person may be completely altered by such action. Such a realization has always been shown in University Hall and it is only unfortunate that there are still a number of institutions that consistently refuse to recognize...