Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Reserve banking system stabilizes the U. S. money market. Might not some form of "reserve" be set up to stabilize the U. S. labor market-a national job reserve...
...veto was for the King to appoint (or threaten to appoint) sufficient new Peers pledged to pass the bill to outnumber the Lords who were opposed. The Commons were legally impotent to force George V to take this step. A rash King, or a stubborn or a mad, might have stood against his Commons, and blocked progressive legislation for years. Wise King-Emperor George V decided to break the deadlock, did it by threatening the Lords, and has ever since risen steadily in the affection of his people...
Since Count Bethlen himself recently intimated that a royal election might be expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
...Mercury has brought to birth such writers as James Stephens, who, it is implied, might never otherwise have found a patron. It has printed the best poetry and fiction; if it has used few stories and fewer lyrics, that is because there have been no others good enough...
Major Barbara might more descriptively have been titled, "A spectacular demonstration of the theory that money makes morals-complete with characters, including: one Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments...