Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Apr. 6). General Andrews has been placed in charge of Customs, Coast Guard, Prohibition Unit, especially the last. The ex-cavalry officer who reorganized the military police system of the A. E. F. was regarded somewhat doubtfully as a supervisor of international billions, was hailed with enthusiasm as a defender of the 18th Amendment...
...Senate over the Army Reform Bill, a Fascist measure designed to reduce the standing Army from 200,000 to about 140,000 men. It was the first appearance of Premier Benito Mussolini in that august assembly since his recovery from his recent illness. He was received with dignified enthusiasm, sharply contrasted with the boisterousness of the lower Chamber (TIME, Apr. 6). Senate President Tommaso Tittoni congratulated the Premier upon his recovery...
...Republicans (reputed to be led by the Ku Klux Klan), swept the state. But Lindsey held his seat by 117 votes. A recount was demanded. Last week, he appeared to be slipping. Meanwhile, appeals have gone through the Nation for financial and moral support. Some of the old enthusiasm for Mr. Judge has been revived. His gallant personal story has been retold?how he started in a real-estate office in Denver at $10 month to support a widowed mother and her younger children, how his early law studies so discouraged him by their : technicalities and sophistries that he attempted...
...corporate ownership. The basic reason for this is the readiness of the public to purchase securities at such times, plus the relatively high prices reached by securities when interest rates are low. The U. S. is apparently moving into another such merger period as 1900-06, except that today enthusiasm is more tempered with wisdom of ex- perience. But the figures are larger, except for the mammoth Steel Corporation merger of 1901. There are still few other billion-dollar corporations, yet in the last few years a large number have crept up to within striking distance of the billion-dollar...
...finesse, this mellow inconclusiveness may perhaps be justified, but Mr. Coolidge has majorities supporting him in both houses of Congress, and so does not need to rely on anonymity. The danger of these ambushed soundings of public opinion comes in making the President subject to every caprice of popular enthusiasm. The prepared statements issued by Presidents prior to Harding told the public just what the President intended to do without leaving him a loophole of escape when he advocated unpopular policies...