Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Heard Secretary for Mines Lane-Fox ominously declare: "It may be necessary for the Government to fix the price of coal in order to stop profiteering. But it will be better if we can avoid it in view of the probability of an early collapse of the coal strike...
Financial Partners John Pierpont Morgan and Charles Steele withdrew from the directorate of the International Mercantile Marine Co. last April to avoid embarrassing the sale of its White Star Line. Their London firm, Morgan, Grenfell & Co., was trying to sell the fleet to British shippers. That deal was abandoned. Therefore, last week, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Steele resumed their I. M. M. directorships, and the White Star Line will continue for the immediate present U. S. owned but British operated...
...order to avoid crowding, the attendance has been limited to 900 people. Both Dining Rooms will be used between 11.40 o'clock and 1.20 o'clock for the Supper. Special tickets with the approximate time for dining stamped on them have been issued by the management in order to prevent confusion in the supper interval. These tickets are printed in groups for each 20 minutes during the two-hour period the Dining Rooms will be open...
Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho, who changed his mind on the World Court to avoid the hostility of mighty Senator Borah, is opposed by John F. Nugent, Democrat. The campaign is complicated by the fact that Mr. Nugent and Senator Borah are old friends...
...Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts, the Rev. Jal Singh proceeded up this path and near it found, not a dragon's nest, but the den of a she-wolf, with several wolf...