Word: furtherence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But the Senate remained deaf to the President. Last week, finally, it passed (68 to 12) the cruiser-building bill with the three-year time-limit. The House shouted its approval. The bill went to the White House, whence it was brusquely despatched to the Navy Department to be thoroughly...
Mildly defiant, the Shipping Board answered the Senate obliquely by voting (6 to 1) to accept the Chapman bid, subject to further consultation.
"The very moral fibre"" is, of course, a phrase which always indicates that its utterer means business. And Evangelist Rader further stirred his hearers with many a Bryanesque booming. Examples:
Toward Wall Street last week the Federal Reserve Board shook a threatening finger, spoke a warning word. With loans to brokers standing at $5,669,000,000, the Board felt that too much money was being absorbed by the stockmarket, that other interests were being forced to pay too much...
Although the opponents of mass education have plenty of sound criticism, which should aid greatly in correcting a system which due to its comparative novelty has many apparent defects, nevertheless many overlook the crux of the problem. If the main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of...