Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
...Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy...
...Washington University and Mr. Aldred at M. I. T. The Vice President dwelt upon the diplomatic, consular, and state department services. Mr. Aldred happily called attention to the horizontal extent of the Public Service by speaking of the industrial and municipal engineering research in relation to city planning, water power development, conservation, and flood control. The City, the State, and the Nation need the college trained man as insistently as do the professions and the business world...
Officially Lawyer Henry Lewis Stimson had held no rank or office, though styled by courtesy "Personal Representative of President Coolidge" (TIME, April 18). Actually, with the President behind him, and with Congress not in session, Mr. Stimson had wielded power of life and death. By persuasion and threats of force* he had compelled the embattled Conservative and Liberal Nicaraguan armies to lay down their arms and submit to U. S. control of Nicaragua until 1928, when the U. S. guarantees to supervise an impartial election...
...rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power. His hour has come, and he has been called to whatever Valhalla has been prepared...