Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...moreover, would not be accessible to everybody), but would find it sufficiently simple to ask himself, if the derogatory characteristics given by Eastman to the leading personnel of our party had been true, how could this party have gone through the long years of underground struggle, have made the greatest revolution in the world, have been able to lead the millions and to assist the formation of revolutionary parties in other countries?" Max Eastman, 42, whose father was descended from Daniel Webster, was born in New York State. He was graduated from Williams College in 1905 and subsequently became...
...greatest success in the World War was in 1914 before Verdun. Ordered to fall back, he refused. His refusal allowed Marshal Joffre to stage a counterattack on the right flank of Sarrail's command and the engagement ended in the saving of Verdun. Had not Sarrail disobeyed orders, the course of the War might have been very different...
...Morocco (known also as the She-reefian Empire) is nominally under the technically autocratic sway of Sultan Mulai Yusef. In the Spanish zone, where the Riff is situate, Abd-el-Krim is the most potent figure. In the French zone-by far the greater part of Morocco-the greatest man is not the Sultan, who is a mere shadow, but Marshal Lyautey. This soldier, who has won fame solely by his invaluable work in Morocco, is the embodiment...
...Force, intimidation and oppression, which have hitherto been the weapons of the strong against the weak, are to give place to reason, cooperation and goodwill. Here America scores one of her greatest diplomatic triumphs: This is an adaptation of the Monroe Doctrine for the Orient. It is an American policy enunciated by Hay, formulated by Root and Hughes and promulgated by Kellogg...