Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped to force a Congressional investigation. Mr. Hearst said his private holdings in Mexico were worth three or four million dollars. Since the Calles Government has tended toward a confiscatory policy on alien property, a motive for Mr. Hearst wanting to "sic" the Senate on Mexico was clear. Public implication of the four Senators was, in the opinion of the decent U. S. press (see p. 20), an impudent journalist's "stunt...
...well of any U. S. Citizen who is glad not to have been born a British subject. How then is it possible that the Communist party has come to such a turning of the ways that Trotsky and 100 lesser great men must be left behind? ", Ihe matter is clear when two facts are remembered: Trotsky represents the doctrine that the Soviet state must never cease to promote "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat, because, until that Revolution comes, Russia herself cannot attain a state of "pure" Lenin Communism, due to the machinations of non-Communist powers; 2) Stalin...
What could be more final than that? Nothing in the world, thought the open-mouthed Committee. That is, nothing could be more final for the moment. The Coolidge intention was clear enough. In the four months since the President first shut his door it had been pried wide again. Now he had shut it again. He chose not to lock it. He chose not to anticipate contingencies or to answer his own question: "Who could beat Al Smith if I didn...
...overstepped one of the underworld boundary lines which divide all Chicago into four parts (TIME, Mar 21). So many innocent bystanders have been shot down by gang warriors in Chicago that Chicagoans have great respect for Mr. Capone. The vice syndicate he is reputed to control is supposed to clear 75 millions per annum. "Scarface Al" is proud of his record but not of all his reputation. That was why he was plaintive, even glum, at his press reception last week. That was why he said...
...found and endow a "Peace Prize." Phrasemakers coined that term. It has come to suggest a shining award, fit only for such world-great champions as Theodore Roosevelt, who won it in 1906, or Woodrow Wilson, to whom it fell in 1918. Yet the words of M. Nobel are clear. What he founded and endowed was no simple "Peace Prize" but an award "for fraternization among nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the calling and propagating of peace congresses...