Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Socialists feared that the Chancellor was taking advantage of the crisis precipitated last week by a government employes' strike (see col. 2) to jam through an emergency measure so contrived that one year hence the beak-nosed Monsignor might himself assume the Presidency with semi-dictatorial powers. Still it was significant that Chancellor Seipel had said, impatiently lecturing strike leaders: "What Austria needs is a strong President to keep her house in order!" To many Socialists the inference seemed inescapable. Seipel, already strong, wanted to be stronger, strongest...
...picturesquely described the ensuing confusion: "Election day dawned with no strong candidates of any party. Election day waned with no candidates developing any signs of sufficient strength to win. In fact, ten minutes before the final ballot any latecomer in the halls of Parliament where the election was held might, by a few well-chosen words, have obtained the victory...
First Presbyterian (Fifth Avenue at 12th Street). It was here that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, ordained Baptist, preached his famed Anti-fundamentalist sermon which might have split the Presbyterian church...
Long-planned, muchdiscussed, the code was adopted at the ninth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago. Much of it might seem to consist of regulations which have become standard practices in most industries. It should be remembered, however, that the oil industry today suffers from overproduction, with its attendant fierceness of competition among more than 3,000 established oil companies. There are in this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over...
Television, so far, has been an amusement for amateur electricians and material for Sunday newspaper sections. That television might soon be something else was indicated last week by an advertisement which appeared upon financial pages...