Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recovery in Europe till politicians in all territories, old and new, realize that trade is not war but a process of exchange, that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their prosperity is a condition of our own wellbeing. If we check their dealings, their power to pay their debts diminishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced. Restricted imports involve restricted exports, and no nation can afford to lose its export trade...
Since then the Christian Socialist pendulum has swung back to Mgr. Seipel, and last week brought him again into power on the upsurge of a great personal triumph. The new Cabinet is identical with the resigned cabinet of former Chancellor Ramek with four exceptions...
...former Mexican presidents, providing that one presidential term elapses between the end of their tenure of office and their reelection. This measure was rushed through by the friends of onetime President Alvaro Obregon. He and President Calles are the twin political idols of the anticlerical faction now in power. Presumably the bill passed by the Chamber last week will be railroaded through the Senate with equal ease. After that a few months of intensive and unscrupulous campaigning should suffice to place Alvaro Obregon where he sat before he was succeeded by his good friend President Calles (TIME...
...frame on light bearings-of which the internal equilibrium is sufficient to withstand outer forces that seek to upset its balance. In the arc-light field, it is 47 years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them (TIME, March 30, 1925), by which a man 40 miles away can see to read a newspaper. Coincidentally, it was also the 47th anniversary...
...England is America-mad. The English girl imitates the American girl . . . the English boy plans to go to America . . . forgetting their own very real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test...