Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief...
Prohibition: Bone dry, with this advance upon his platform and Mr. Coolidge: "Common sense compels us to realize that grave abuses have occurred-abuses which must be remedied." Later, he named the abolition of the saloon as a cause of U. S. prosperity...
...common knowledge is the frequent and valiant toping of champagne and swizzling of spirits by the President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi or "Victorious One" (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). Therefore only the mildest ripple of surprise was occasioned when Kemal addressed a Turkish audience in Constantinople, last week, in part as follows...
...Nationalist protest was lodged with the Occidental consuls, at Shanghai last week, against British-fostered greyhound racing in that city. So popular have the races & betting become that they are denounced as "leading to the impoverishment of the common people of Shanghai for the benefit of foreigners...
Chrysler-Dodge. In a dull market, common stock of the Chrysler Corp. and preference stock of Dodge Bros., Inc. assumed leadership, soared 10 points in a single session to new high levels for all time. Wall Street debated: Could the Chrysler-Dodge combine threaten General Motors supremacy? Commenting on results of the merger, E. F. Hutton & Co. noted: "Chrysler obtains a second dealer organization of 6,000. It thus becomes the only automobile company in a position to compete with General Motors in the latter's highly successful plan of a separate dealer organization for cars selling in different...