Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yardstick of political power. A Harvard graduate of good family, the late Boies Penrose (1860-1921) climbed the Republican ladder of Pennsylvania to serve 24 years in the U. S. Senate, where Death found him chairman of the potent Finance Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system-all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom...
Leave it to the Horse! David Lloyd George laid down the platform of his* Liberal party in a "Victory Speech" to the 500 Parliamentary candidates in whom he pins his slender hopes for a comeback to Power...
Such trains promise great economies in air transportation. The greater the load which a power plant can pull the cheaper the charges for passengers or freight, and the better the profits for the entrepreneurs. The chief difficulty at present seems to be the initial motive power to start the train from the ground. Once in the air the motor pull for a train is not much greater than for a single plane. Railroaders and motor truckers have the same problem on an easier scale. A solution for the air seems to be multi-motored planes with all engines working...
...Institute to have power, at the absolute discretion of its board of directors, to issue bonds against the security covered by the "A" certificates only, and to devote the proceeds to repaying the creditor Powers. The series of "A," "B" and "C" certificates to be issued substantially in the form of promissory notes of 1,000,000,000 marks each ($250,000,000), and these notes to be cancelled one by one as Germany pays her creditors billion after billion in each of the three ways outlined, namely from the proceeds of bonds, by cash transfers and by transfers...