Word: bogeying
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Having aimed at a par of five and made a bogey 19, Signer Mussolini alibied: "Further revalorization would be possible but undesirable. . . . The level of revalorization already reached. . . . is most satisfactory. ... It corresponds to the gold index of world prices and represents the point where all interests of the State and of individuals find a fair equilibrium...
Said Mr. Butler, in effect: Western Republicans are very fond of President Coolidge. The third term bogey strikes terror nowhere. Nobody is considering any 1928 candidate other than the President...
...Geneva representatives of 46 nations to discuss ways of smoothing international trade and finance. More businessmen and bankers were there than politicians. Frank A. Vanderlip, onetime newspaperman, onetime U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and onetime President of the National City Bank, New York, dressed up the bogey of foreign debts to the U. S. He said that War debts to the U. S. Government total $12,000,000,000, debts of foreign governments and corporations to private U. S. investors $13,000,000,000. The U. S. is lending abroad $1,000,000,000 each year...
Today it is Lord Rothermere who shouts as with a million tongues the praises of Premier Mussolini and Premier Poincaré and keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William...
...Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came up for the weekend. He outlined the tentative program of the Navy Department for the expansion of its air arm under the recently authorized five-year program. Undeterred by bogey-visions of the Shenandoah, the Roma, and other lighter-than-air disasters, Mr. Wilbur requested the President's approval for an airship "three times the size of the Shenandoah...