Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courts, whither the battle has been at least temporarily removed, strikers planned appeals to vindicate the right of mass picketing. Five radicals, charged with assaulting policemen, were sentenced to seven months in the House of Correction. Radical leaders have piled sentence on sentence until some are faced with total terms of over two years...
...thought best. This emphasis, in both letters, made people doubt that too-much-work was the cause underlying the Raskob withdrawal. People said that the cause was pressure from within General Motors, notably perhaps from the six Fisher Brothers (bodies), four of whom are General Motors directors and at least one of whom has contributed money to Hooverism.* Mr. Raskob called such talk "too ridiculous to discuss." Smith headquarters were moved, as planned, into the Raskob offices in the General Motors Building. The net change was that the Brown Derby's chief spokesman ceased to be the chief spokesman...
...last year of 206,000. Not since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National...
...King & Queen were obliged to motor around the Cataracts. Before proceeding downstream to the Atlantic (1,500 miles) King Albert received the homage of several onetime cannibal tribes, two being notorious backsliders. A sprinkling of Pigmies had been drummed up and Their Majesties inspected with interest the cleanest, tamest, least savage. On their way home to Belgium, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth will pass a bleak spot in the English channel where, in September 1917, a German submarine torpedoed the Belgian steamer Elizabethville in the safe of which was locked the entire diamond output of the Congo for 1917, valued...
...Representatives, along the banks of the Ohio River. Grapegrower Garrett looks at least as far into the future, sees the U. S. once more a temperance nation...