Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apart from the humanity of such a move it would be an immense saving. We could do without many destroyers, now needed solely to guard against submarine attack...
Dictator Carmona proclaimed: "I will immediately move to solve the political crisis." His followers were not perturbed...
...must not move too hastily. Perhaps the first thing to abolish is the collar stud. We really must get rid of that. You know, men have far too many buttons to trouble them...
Bond & Share company, has little community of interest with the other rumorees, carries on only abroad. Superpower, a Bonbright & Co., child, does extraordinarily well as it is. The other three rumorees, however, are direct, lineal descendants in the Bond & Share genealogy of holding companies, sub-holding companies, operators. A move which would merge these, put one in place of three, sounded logical to many...
...Genro is a political institution without Western precedent. Possessing no constitutional authority but politically active until 1922, it then consisted of the four patriarchs who helped frame the Constitution of 1889?Marshal Prince Yamagata, Prince Saonji, Prince Matsukata, Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by the Emperor without consulting the Elder Statesmen. When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still...