Word: strenuousness
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Last week 1,200 U. S. businessmen assembled in Washington and spent four strenuous clays at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce listening to 49 speeches by their fellow Chambermen. Of the 49 speakers nine were die-hard laissez-faire men, who wanted the Government to get out and stay out of their businesses. Thirteen were confused about the question or did not directly refer to it, and 27 clearly favored a larger measure of Government control of industry...
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...College Tutoring Bureau has been set upon by a New York publisher who objects, and in strenuous wise, to their unsanctioned sale of text outlines. Diverted for a moment from their cheery task of pillaging the Freshman till, the Bureau responds with a shocked innocence, that such things have always been, and implies that the pre-final period is a rather nasty time to bring it all up anyway. Meanwhile, cocking its ear towards the Yard, the Bureau professes to find a murmur against an intolerance so fatal...
...very amateurish way, to determine that whatever disturbance had taken place was probably south of Pasadena and (because of the interruption to Los Angeles stations) might have affected Los Angeles to a serious extent. Presently I picked up a station west of me announcing that they were making strenuous effort to ascertain the extent of the disturbance. Shortly after we were informed of the Long Beach catastrophe. Then the air was quickly filled with exciting calls...
Some 7,000 new directors made the Directory last year, an increase of 15% over the usual number of neophytes. This was attributed to the "strenuous times" in which younger men were pushed ahead to ease the burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate...