Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet. Following the attempt upon the Crown Prince's life, the Cabinet and the Prince played battledore and shuttlecock with the Government. Viscount Shunpei Goto, "Roosevelt of Japan," as Home Minister felt himself responsible for the narrowly averted disaster, and resigned. This lead to the resignation en masse of the remaining members of the Cabinet. The Crown Prince refused to accept the resignations; the Cabinet refused to reconsider its decision to resign. There the matter stood. No forecasts of the composition of the next ministry were made public. The Ministry that resigned was composed of: Premier, Count Gombei Yamamoto; Home...
...Neighborhood Club of Quincy will oppose Team B on the University courts at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. J.D. Dubois '24 will lead as No. 1 man, but R.S. Wright '26, who has held second place, is out of town and will not play. This means that the remaining men will move up one, F.I. Carpenter '24 going in at No. 2, E.J. Upjohn '26 at No. 3, J.H. Finley '25 at No. 4, and P.R. Pease '26 will fill the fifth position...
...Federal funds, nor could they be remedied by Federal authority. . . . Many complaints were received. . . . Most of them came from districts in which no Federal funds were being used, and which, therefore, could not receive attention at the hands of the Department. The conditions revealed, however, were such as to lead me to notify the Governor in January, 1923, that no further Federal aid allotments would be made to Arkansas until these conditions were corrected...
...Christmas of 1923 will go down in history as lavish in extra dividends to stockholders. An almost interminable list of corporations, great and small, has followed the lead made some weeks past by the U. S. Steel Corporation in making presents to stockholders. Such an occurrence has not been witnessed since the spectacular but lamented year...
Stray X-rays escaping from a laboratory or doctor's office and endangering the health of persons in adjoining rooms will have their teeth pulled by an invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...