Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Moses and his associates wish to settle the issue within the party before the nomination is made, so as to present a united party attitude to the people at the next election." So runs the Democratic propaganda. Experts in political strategy point out that this is a skilful move to drive the Republicans back into the extreme isolationist position and keep them from stealing League of Nations thunder from the Democrats by advocating the World Court...
...This move for mergers and consolidation, if successful, will effect a complete revolution in our national railroad policy. Thirty years ago the country was alarmed at great railroad dictators like Harriman and Hill with their stock and promotion wizards such as Gates, Gould, and Reid. The public feared that they would become an industrial and financial oligarchy so powerful that the whole country would be at their mercy. So the Government broke their power, dissolved the great pools and combinations, hedged the railroad business about with a complex set of rules and regulations, and held the Sherman Act like...
Hugo Stinnes. Crafty, potent, indurate, Herr Hugo Stinnes, coal magnate, multimillionaire, present " All-Highest " of Germany, plots a coal victory in the Ruhr. His aim is the control of the European steel industries, and, like all mysterious figures who move in the no-man's-land of international politics, he stands to win whichever side comes...
...Free State has rejected the latest, and what many observers considered the most promising move for peace in Ireland. Archbishop Harty of Cashel, in Munster County, pro posed that an immediate truce be made, that the Republicans dump all arms under pledge that they be handed over to whichever party wins the next election. He pointed out that the Republicans would thus be spared the humiliation of surrender, and yet peace would be fully restored. Tom Barry, irregular leader, was friendly to the proposal. A motion in favor of its adoption was introduced into the Dail Eireann. But Kevin...
There was a marked improvement in the balance of the boats yesterday, and since the necessity of perfecting this point was one of the determining factors in the move to tide-water, the fact was a source of great satisfaction to the coaches. As yet no departure has been made from a slow paddle because it is felt that several days may be spent with profit on balance and other points impossible of perfection on the machines before any attempt is made to test the racing potentialities of the oarsmen. The fact that there are only three scheduled races...