Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion. Reason: Statesman Stimson adroitly emphasized the truism that political independence which Filipinos so crave is nowadays synonymous with economic independence...
This becomingly imperial custom was resumed, last week, when there journeyed to Doom four loyal Frankfurters, all professors of Orientology at the University of Frankfurt...
...skilled dramatist could simplify the problem, after the custom of his craft, by presenting to us a study of a man and woman about to marry and applying, each without the other's knowledge, for the same post. If he secures it, the play ends happily. If she secures it, the social loss is clear. This is what actually is taking place on a large scale-all over the world...
...Custom entitles every retiring Speaker to receive a viscountcy. The King-Emperor has no choice as to which "signal mark of favor" he must bestow. Moreover, in Mr. Whitley's case the Sovereign was impelled not by necessity but by liveliest gratitude. Well His Majesty knows that through seven stormy years the dignity of the Throne and the sanctity of tradition have been upheld by Speaker Whitley in an often ribald House of Commons. Therefore most Britons were positive that Mr. Whitley was about to become a viscount?but they were fooled...
...Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them but would not be pledged to do so? as is the usual custom. Concluding with wily logic, Dr. Gustav Stresemann observed that, "This Cabinet formation coincides with the spirit of the German Constitution, which recognizes only the personal responsibility of Ministers and not the responsibility of parliamentary factions...