Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had in this country, in my opinion, about all we could stand of the 'spokesman' idea...
...Mayor Harry A. Mackey who was passive for a while, who scorned the idea that municipal extortionists could exist among the police or elsewhere. But at length he ordered a wholesale transfer of the police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
...true destiny of Newfoundland, with her fisheries, her forests, and her mineral wealth lies in the direction of the United States. . . . The Dominion of Newfoundland is coming around to the idea of choosing to become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...
...raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...
...principally in Malaya, produced in that year 300,000 tons. Dutch plantations, in Java and the East Indies, produced only 95,000 tons. Prices were low. In an attempt to boost prices, establish a monopoly, Great Britain undertook, by the Stevenson Restriction Act, to regulate exports from Malaya. The idea was to fix the price of crude rubber at between 30 and 40? a pound...