Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion for the upheaval was the Illinois primary election. Among the Democrats, nothing extraordinary happened. Their party was out of power and they quietly went to the polls to nominate candidates whom they scarcely hoped to elect next autumn unless Candidate Smith, for whom they meant the State's 58 uninstructed national delegates, can carry all before...
...System. This week French voters will thankfully resume the simple system of balloting which sufficed them before the War. In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament...
...rubber-romance kindled in the quiet, Gothic depths of the House of Commons. There Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pronounced a few matter-of-fact words which altered the destiny of Britain's wide-flung rubber plantations in Malaya. Straits Settlements and Ceylon. To U. S. motorists the pronouncement meant that raw rubber suitable for tire-making will probably be stabilized in price at a figure less than half of what was paid last year...
...year-old program of attempting to force up the world price of rubber by curtailing the supply. This program, the so-called Stevenson Plan, went into effect in 1922, when crude rubber stood at 17? a pound, and bounced the price up within three years to $1.21. That meant bonanza profits for British plantations. Why then is the Stevenson Plan about to be scrapped...
Fretful, impatient, three Germans paced the Baldonnel Airdrome at Dublin, Ireland. Their plane was poised for flight, pointed westward, over the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, toward America. Anxious, disappointed, obviously annoyed at delays, they waited for favorable weather reports, for they meant to be the first to fly successfully from the Old World...