Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...
...latest of his plays to reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...
...international army, not especially British. If the idea prevails that one nation dominates, that is the rock on which we may split...
...president of Pacific Gas & Electric. A onetime newspaper boy, his commercial career includes a period of collecting bad bills for a book store and of filling lamps in Pennsylvania R. R. offices. Mr. Hockenbeamer works incessantly, golfs indifferently, smokes continually (large, strong cigars). He was an originator of the idea that the general public should be invited to hold stocks in utilities. In 1914 Pacific Gas & Electric had 3,000 stockholders. It has some 50,000 today...
...under famed, dynamic Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. After a year, he went with his school and college classmate, Henry Robinson Luce, to be a reporter for the late Publisher Munsey's Baltimore News. Thence, having got as far as they could in spare hours with the Newsmagazine Idea, they returned, jobless and with a few hundred dollars, to New York...