Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough, this onetime Britisher with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
...Very Reverend, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London*, published last week are of his many prophecies. Said he: "Everything points to a coming time of trial for the nation and the empire. It seems for every reason unlikely that our position as a world power will endure much longer. Much depends upon the friendliness of the United States on which we certainly cannot count, though of which we should not despair...
Never before has the President of the Reich thus entertained a high naval officer of a power arrayed against Germany during the World...
These gestures of international concord were made on the occasion of a visit by the U. S. European flagship Memphis to Kiel, famed cradle of German sea power...
Chaos flung engulfing wings over China last week. In their shadow Anarchy gibbered. The Chinese Communist tide, welling upward from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), gained undisputed headway at last. During the week the one hundred million Chinese who dwell in the Yangtze River valley found themselves in the power of the Cantonese Communist Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek. The Great Powers, anxious, perturbed, despatched a total of 40 warships up the Yangtze to protect their nationals...