Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Association is composed of representatives of some 350 cities in the U. S., Canada and New Zealand which are run by city managers. Dr. Hatton, an ardent promoter of the city manager movement, conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...Manhattan. This extensive movement of onetime troops, now heroes, took Manhattan for its chief point of departure. Following a banquet and speeches, the Legion's leaders boarded the S. S. Leviathan, flagship of an armada which sailed with informal peacetime' fanfare...
...Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for one dollar. J. W. COTTON Captain, Infantry ( Subscriber ) Columbus, Ga. "Fat an Apple" Sirs: Why all the letters concerning Mr. Knapp and Boy Scouts? Why bother to associate the two [TIME. Aug. 29] ? Every one knows the fineness of the Scout movement. I would suggest that your readers who are quibbling over Mr, Knapp's letter eat one apple and then go to the movies. RICHARD V. NOYES Boston. Mass...
...credited with a desire to postpone the next meeting of the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, scheduled to be held in the fall, allegedly to try to avoid a discussion of the recent tripartite Naval Conference between the U. S. Britain, Japan (TIME, June 27, et. seq.). A well-defined movement to blame Britain for the failure seemed, however, to be in the making...
...Louis was made ready for flight. Percussion instruments hum, rumble, roar to denote the spinning of the propeller. Brasses indicate the farewell hammering in mechanics. Gentler instruments soothingly interpret the pouring of oil. Then the plane soars to the screech of a fire engine siren. Storm, sleet ... a lyrical movement as the hero sights the mainland of Europe. Finally, triumphant orchestration. Herein ring fragments of "Dixie," "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Marseillaise," "Yankee Doodle...