Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apostate, Leo nardo da Vinci, Peter the Great. But these are novels; the Merezhkovskian Life of Napoleon, less tightly woven than the author's previous book on the same idol, distinguishes itself from the mass of Napoleonic lives by disclosing a secret. Secret of the Napoleonic will-to-power, reveals Biographer Merezhkovsky, was its isolation, its "islandness." On an island (Corsica) Napoleon was born; on another (St. Helena) he died. Small Napoleon would pull down all his room's shades, pretend he was "away." He retired from battles, not actually, but "in that strange, magnetic sleep...
...rail unions said: "I don't know why our brotherhood should not be in this, the largest labor organization in the world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken...
Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...
...Federal Reserve will, of course, enjoy this negative power in common with other central banks, though debarred by Washington from "entangling" positive potency...
Other Ottawa keynotes: He assured the Dominions that they would all be represented at the Five Power Naval Parley in London next January (TIME, Oct. 21). He rejoiced that during the week Japan, Italy and France had joined the U. S. in accepting invitations to the parley unconditionally. He promised on returning to London to communicate soon with Tokyo, Paris and Rome "in the same free and open way" as with President Hoover...