Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Declared Bishop Cannon: "I had been brought up with the general idea of country and small town people that all trading in Wall Street stocks was gambling...
...Irish youth, T. A. McLaughlin. who graduated by Dublin University after the War, went job-hunting to Berlin, signed on with Siemens-Schuckert, dazzled his German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...
...basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church, the last seminarian had not yet emerged. High above droned a squadron of airplanes, spying on the roofs for forbidden cinema cameramen. The crowd found it almost impossible to see across the vastitude. One smart girl's idea became contagious?hundreds of women raised their vanity mirrors aloft, saw the spectacle in reflection...
Aeronautics, William B. Ziff's aviation monthly published in Chicago, recently printed the idea as a corollary of Col. William Mitchell's revived demand for a Department of Aeronautics (TIME. June 10). The National Aviation Academy might be located at some midcontinent point remote from possible boundary invasions. To it Congressmen might nominate cadets who would get a four-year training in mechanics, piloting, tactics, strategy. Graduates would be able to move in war as an independent force, instead of as auxiliaries to Army or Navy groups...
...This idea published, Aeronautics waited for public comment. Last week it announced honestly: "So far nothing has materialized except a notable expression of sympathy from a large share of the daily press, and a few of the usual large gestures from those who profess to believe that the present hodgepodge is the noblest possibility of our great democracy...