Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notable Exceptions. Outside these "big business" combines whose sole preoccupations are profit and power there exists a mere pair of newspapers whose editors can call their souls their own. The onetime (1921-26) Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Reading, has recently sought to enlarge this number by his purchase of the Daily Chronicle (Liberal) from Lloyd George control; but the "old guard" actually consists of only the Manchester Guardian (Liberal) and the London Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism...
...self-made" Canadian, he sought the power. Through adroit propaganda in England which reverberated in Canada he was appointed "Canadian Observer" in the theatre of World War. Thereafter his dynamic shrewdness as a commercial intrigant enabled him to break into the newspaper trust amid the War upheaval and established him upon his present eminence...
...will never support Carol if he seeks to obtain power by force of the army. Carol must ask the King's permission to visit him. He must also leave the woman with whom he lives immorally, free himself from his environment in Paris and return to his legal wife and son. Princess Helene lives only for her child, and is highly respected by the whole people...
...Major-domos, Hausmeier, or Mayors of the Palace to the early Frankish kings gradually assumed more and more power until Charles Martel (grandfather of Charlemagne) technically a mere Hausmeier, completely eclipsed his king, Childeric III, whom no one remembers...
...production of three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...