Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following the lead of Commonwealth & Southern which this month sold TVA its Tennessee utilities for $80,000,000, National Power & Light last week sold to TVA and the City of Memphis for $17,360,000 the distributing system of Memphis Power & Light Co., leaving TVA with no major private competitors in Tennessee. TVA is dickering for parts of Commonwealth & Southern's Alabama and Mississippi properties that would give the Authority a clearly defined power empire in three States...
...more pleased when II Telegrafo, mouthpiece of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, thumbed down as a "political" Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli, nominated as a Pastor Angelicas, predicted in old prophecies, the pious Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal dalla Costa. Since as a rule the Roman Catholic Church prefers to lead opinion rather than follow it, Il Telegrafo's nomination could be considered a death-kiss...
...than the New Deal's Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation packed up crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook. But it is readily lost if the potato...
...that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom. From prohibition of fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus may spread to whole universities, and then go on to infect the entire educational system. Thus do such...
...election of a non-Italian cardinal is rather improbable," he said. "It would be an open challenge to Mussolini, and in view of the present political situation in Europe it might lead to serious complications," Professor La Piana believes that in case of war, a non-Italian Pope would be in a tragic situation...