Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After two weeks struggle against the oppression of the capitalist authorities of an acquisitive Society, it is possible to publish the second brief installment of a journal which bids fair to rip the stagnant weeds of conservatism from the face of humanity. For obvious reasons the author still prefers to remain anonymous...
...Detroit and suc- cessor to Mr. Newberry, declared in a public memorandum that demagogues throughout the country are magnifying the difficulties under which railways are operating. The public is being offered the choice of wage reductions for railway men or increased railway tariffs. Reduction of wages is an obvious saving for railway executives to suggest. " Why," suggested the Senator, " don't they do a little brain work to produce the necessary saving by increased railroad efficiency...
...Bolshevik regime has not been recognized by the Department of Slate at Washington. If it had been recognized it could have brought suit, since, as a matter of comity, that privilege is accorded to de jure sovereigns. But it could not have been made a party defendant, because, for obvious reasons, the law does not allow one sovereign to be brought before the municipal courts of another...
...take long for the causal visitor to Geneva, during the Third League Assembly, in September 1922, to reach the obvious conclusion that the League is very much alive. In common with many other Americans, with whom the press and visitors' galleries in the Assembly Hall were literally packed, I attended the sessions of the Council, Assembly, and Commissions day by day for over a month, and came away strongly convinced that the League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord...
...first the stock market turned dull, daily sales declining beneath a million shares toward the week's close. The price movement in stocks was distinctly irregular, some issues holding their recent advances well under obvious short selling, while others declined. Much of the selling pressure on the stock market is believed to have been exerted by odd-lot investors, as a record volume of transactions by odd-lot houses is reported. On Tuesday, however, a sharp rally in industrial shares ensued...