Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again his auditors rose and cheered as the President, smiling broadly, marched out of the hall. The meeting and his speech rounded out his immediate efforts to put momentum into industry, to mold the mass-mind of business...
Last week's troubles originated with a strike in October of students at Damien Agricultural School, whose "bonus" allowances the government had reduced. Anti-Borno politicos seized upon this strike to spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial...
...Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings: one hour at church; two hours on a motor ride. ¶ Thirty-five public utility executives, led by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, filed into the Cabinet Room, pledged nearly two billion dollars to the President's Momentum-for-Industry program. Total pledges: ten billion dollars. ¶ To the White House went Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, asked President Hoover to practice his own plea by preventing the release of 1,000 civilian employes at the U. S. Navy Yard at Brooklyn...
...stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
There have been rumblings presaging serious dramatic activity at Harvard ever since the famous Forty Seven Workshop was discontinued. Within the last year these innuendos have gathered momentum and the chances for a revival of a former dramatic glory is looming up with a considerable show of realism. Although nothing definite has appeared, the general undergraduate feeling has certainly grown stronger, and it should be but a matter of time until something material is produced...