Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rewarded in the actual realization of their plans for the great Nickel Plate merger. Arguments tor further delay made by minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders have been denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has bgun to consider the merger officially. Its approval will remove the last important barrier to effecting the consolidation...
...Goodman and his Stagers have made a good start. It can hardly be tailed brilliant, yet they are smartly away from the barrier and not far from the van. They produced a play by E. Temple Thurston about an Englishman who wanted to go back to the engaging path of his early adventuring in Africa. His wife persuaded him that Liverpool and love were better. An early scene in Africa and a barroom temptation episode round out the evening...
...Brass bar in the Senate which acts as a barrier to remind the Commons that they are not technically allowed on the floor of the upper house...
...been offered to Mr. Asquith, but he resolutely refused the honor; for to enter the House of Lords' powerless debating chamber, would have been to commit political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...
Move towards the Barrier with a Sprightly Pace...