Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sought to embarrass the Prime Minister by demanding a vote on a point of order before he had time to open his lips. Scowling, the "Lion of Lorraine" consented to the vote, won by 335 to 147, and then launched into a great and moving political declaration. His two paramount objects would be, he said, first to put through revision of the Dawes Plan, and thereafter to secure final ratification by Parliament of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, between France and the U. S. When M. Poincaré had spoken, a cheering Chamber gave his Cabinet a formal vote...
...also hastened the pro-Smith declaration of independent Senator George W. Norris, reputed controller of Nebraska's electoral votes and a potent influence throughout the restless North-west (see p. 16). Senator Norris flatly opposed the Hoover position on water power, which for Senator Norris is the paramount issue. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's most vigorous campaigners, was forced to admit, "I disagree with Mr! Hoover on the power question. If that were the only issue in this campaign. I could not support him." Senator Borah said the paramount issues were Prohibition and Farm Relief...
...preach one doctrine in Europe and practice another in Latin America." He flayed the G. O. P. for failure to reorganize the Government as promised, both in 1920 and in 1924. He ridiculed Mr. Hughes for saying that "prohibition" is a sham battle, while Senator Borah pronounces it the paramount issue of the campaign...
Directors, engineers, making sound pictures have long been troubled by the roar of beaded dresses, clash of pearl beads, clangor of bracelets tinkling. Last week Paramount ordered for stars and extras rubber beads, pearls, jewelry...
While the City Sleeps. Because Underworld, crook cinema written by Ben Hecht, made record returns for Paramount a few months ago, hundreds of hideaways, spitting gats, Big Boys, molls, bulls, rods, and mobs have been photographed. Now Lon Chaney as a very plainclothes detective with bunions strides painfully through a convincing picture about bad men and a good girl...