Word: helm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, staunch Liberal, hearty democrat, now guides the helm of the Dominion Government, there is no chance that it will be put over on such a Tory tack as that proposed by Premier Ferguson. Remained, however, for some U. S. citizens the glamorous thought that some day they may be able to obtain in Canada that other commodity denied to U. S. citizens, a peerage...
...connecting west and midwest by north and south is already dominated, and might well be directed, by this financier who, though never a railroad man, can sit in his office and evolve plans "to build up the territory" as readily as he would take a trick at the helm of one of his yachts; as earnestly as he would inquire into and relieve the finances of one of his many religious charities...
Coach Brown, who took over the crew helm this fall, believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite lineups. In other words he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
...find a wife for our five-year-old Crown Prince Peter" (TIME, May 10). The sap was running strong in M. Pashitch yet, it seemed. When he rode away to the Royal Palace it must have been to accept the Premiership for the twelfth time. Pashitch would take the helm. Everything would be all right...
...separation of the two organizations with different men at the helm of each, in January, 1924, was widely hailed as conducive to increased efficiency because of the detailed functions assigned to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. As a matter of fact, the Shipping Board retains absolute control by the simple, yet efficacious, method of demanding a blanket resignation from each Emergency Fleet Corporation President before he takes office. To date Lasker, Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although...