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House Masters have for some time resented noisy swarms of outsiders who attend House dances, and unfortunate incidents of a personal nature have on one or two occasions added to their prejudice. But their passing the buck to the H.A.A. is completely unwarranted, since they have no right to resent and presence of other undergraduates and their guests from stands and playing-fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN CAN GET ALONG | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

...were a socialist, a beach-comber, or some other sort of undesirable, and fell in love with a wealthy and beautiful young lady, her family would resent it--and she would pretend to. But if you were the only man she had over known, she would end up by marrying you, and paternal benediction would be tardy but inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Decent Southerners will resent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. went to Washington to protest. Denying that the present setup was monopolistic or unjust, he declared: "I resent such an indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum Co. of America. Year ago last week the Department of Justice filed suit for the dissolution of this $236,000,000 foundation of the Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Guaranty's Case, With the aplomb of a man at the head of the third largest U. S. bank, Guaranty Chairman William Chapman Potter's affidavit retorts: "I resent these allegations in the complaint and in Mr. Young's affidavit and brand them as utterly false. The Guaranty Trust Co. has repeatedly told Mr. Young and his representatives that ... the only desire of the Guaranty Trust Co. was to protect the interests of the bondholders of Alleghany Corp., for whom it is trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babes & Wolves | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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