Word: ment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamiltonian sort of person who viewed the People with alarm? Was it by any chance purely a vote-hunting cry? In any case, was it a wise cry, politically? The nub of the Hoover speech was this: during the War, the U. S. Govern ment was centralized, given extraordinary powers over U. S. business, viz., the opera tion of the railroads. After the War, the extraordinary powers were withdrawn, control decentralized. "There has been revived in this campaign, however, a series of proposals which, if adopted, would be a long step towards the abandonment of our American system...
...young Scripps-Howard editors are supporting Nominee Hoover this year.? All the young Scripps-Howard editors are also supporting the government-ownership-and-operation side of the Water Power question. Editor Meeman of the News-Sentinel was apparently satisfied that Nominee Hoover's first postscript implied govern ment ownership and operation for Muscle Shoals...
Meanwhile, and all summer long, the Van Sweringen brothers ? Oris Paxton, 49, and Mantis James, 47?sat high in their 54-story steel & limestone railroad tower domineering over Cleveland. Their apart- ment there in the air is charming.+ Charming, too, are they as individuals?courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley...
...greatest. His small volume School and Society (1899) caused world wide repercussions among pedants, pedagogs & preceptors. His lectures at Peking, while he held an exchange professorship there in 1919-20, wrought profoundest effects upon Chinese students ?and in China it was the "student move-ment" which produced the present Nationalist Government (see CHINA) now exerting authority over two-thirds of Cathay...
...shall never sing again in Viennese opera. . . . I shall sing again in Paris if they ask me. I was received there enthusiastically by the public, but I don't know why I deserved the insulting treat-ment accorded me by the Austrian Legation and Director Schneiderhahn of the Vienna Opera...