Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. The A. F. of L. week began with an interview at the fountainhead of executive intervention, the White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
...million other diaries, taken up with a description of the young man's doings, ambitions, theories. Gradually, the man's doings came to have a more than personal importance. Sir Basil Zaharoff began to be spoken of as the "richest man in Europe"; people said that his power was beyond that of kings and premiers. When it became known that Basil Zaharoff had written down all his obscure and enormous conquests, his dark and perhaps reprehensible maneuvers, there followed a great curiosity to see the book in which they were notated. Men tried...
Explanation lies in the fact that Italians were becoming anxious, last fortnight, over the signing of an accord between France and Jugoslavia in mid-November. If so great a Power as France was throwing her prestige upon the side of Italy's potential enemy, Jugoslavia, then it behooved Signor Mussolini to trumpet that Italy is unafraid and not unbefriended...
...second member of the U. S. Radio Commission to die. Commissioner John F. Dillon died in September. Last week Commissioner Henry A. Bellows, high power salesman of his own optimistic ideas and the dominant member of the commission, resigned. Only Commissioners Orestes H. Caldwell and Judge Eugene O. Sykes of the original five remain and only the appointment of Commissioner Sykes has received Senate confirmation. Last week President Coolidge named Sam Pickard a commissioner. He had been the Commission's secretary. Another new appointment is Harold Lafount. They have no chairman. When the commissioners organize they will probably again...
...whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful as the mountains of the moon. On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl. With her he descends upon...