Word: linking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although questions of important policy are involved (such as playing into the hands of the Irish Republicans by admitting that the Crown is no link between the Dominions, or permitting the Free State to appeal to the League over the Boundary Commission's de- cision, which is expected to be un-satisfactory), the real issue is, so far as it Concerns directly the League, Is Britain one nation or seven...
...convention of the National Municipal League, which has just concluded a two-day session at the Harvard Union, draws attention to America's most vital problem in government. As Lord Bryce pointed out, municipal government is the weakest link in the American system. To promote efficient and democratic local control is the purpose of the League...
Super-Radiocasting. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, declared that his company was ready to erect a great "superpower" radiocasting station near Manhattan, and later link it up with a series of such stations if the experiment proved successful. The smaller radiocasters were afraid of interference, and a compromise was finally reached for permitting experiments with superpower radio under close supervision...
...crash of Empires and the falling of crowns, which seemed a logical result of the War, Turkey was a main link in the concatenations of stupendous events. For better or for worse, Turkey became a republic, a midget of a state compared to its former self; all the old panoplies of government were thrown overboard. The Sultan-Calif fled for his life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate...
...Missouri Pacific years ago was a "Gould road," and a link in the ambitious transcontinental railway system from the Atlantic to the Pacific which both Jay and George Gould projected. When, after 1907, this plan collapsed, "Mop" fell upon some lean years. Now the great southwestern merger, which it heads, promises to realize partially, yet in fact, the dreams which the Goulds had of its future...