Word: divert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME, Dec. 24). His murderer still remains unapprehended. Most New Yorkers have heard that the "inside story" of this crime involves so high a Tammany official that the Walker administration had to switch Police Commissioners, as a sop, to divert popular attention from the unpleasant subject by a great display of traffic-controlling in the midtown districts. But nobody cares deeply. The subways are still hideously crowded, but even Wall Street millionaires still ride on them cheerfully. Additional busses have never materialized because, with the Mayor's consent...
Commodity Inflation. Always attacking, never merely defending, Mr. Simmons next proceeded to argue that to divert "the enormous masses of capital today invested in stock market loans'' into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could only end in a colossal smash." In other words, if business in general had the money now in brokers' loans, it would swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock...
...came to him, was because "it would not be in accordance with my conception of the requirements of the Presidential office." His determination was to prevent his nomination and to this end he sent his secretary Everett Sanders-"a man of great ability and discretion"-to Kansas City to divert convention votes for him. Wrote Mr. Coolidge (Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan italicized it) : "Had I not done so, I am told, I should have been nominated...
...proposed also to build a parkway from Fresh Pond Parkway at Mt. Auburn St, to the river at Gerry's Landing and across the river by a new bridge connecting with the present Soldiers Field Road on the Brighton side. This would tend to divert a good deal of traffic which now passes through Mt. Auburn St, in front of the hospitals due to the fact that, at present. Memorial Drive ends opposite Hawthorne...
Another possibility is that the strenuous efforts made during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public...