Word: power
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course, the executive power of the U. S. would still belong to the President, and he could not be made "responsible" in the British prime minister sense without Constitutional Amendment...
...point was that in 1922 the purchasing power of farm products fell from 205 to 116 points. All other products fell simultaneously from 241 to 167 points. "So," explained Mr. Jardine, "when we hit the bottom other industries stood at 167 points and agriculture stood at 116. ... At this time, after passing through three or four of the very worst years American agriculture ever has known, we have come back from the low point of 116 in 1922 to 147 in 1925, whereas nonagricultural products have dropped from...
Overseer Taggart returned home with his sheen but little dimmed by a Roosevelt victory. Curiously, inexplicably he has retained his power-one of the oldtime "Bosses" who figure in a national way. With Charles F. Murphy (Tammany), and Roger Sullivan (Illinois), Tom Taggart in 1912 manoeuvred so as to control apparently the balance of power in the famed Baltimore Convention, to the academic Mr. Wilson's distaste. Indicted in 1915 for election frauds, he nevertheless was appointed Senator by Governor Ralston the next year to fill the unexpired term of Senator Shively. Again in 1924 politicians journeyed to French...
...Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament. Mars, the god who more than any other has the power to forge huge newspaper circulations (the Spanish-American war "made" the New York Journal-TIME, Aug. 16), is revered and propitiated by editors everywhere. Nevertheless, Dr. Shillito pressed his point. "What is needed," he said, "is not propaganda for peace so much as a reasonable and continuous interpretation...
...next problem was to find cheat) electric power. This, it happened, was easy. Tobacco-man James B. Duke (died last October) was just completing in 1924 the huge waterpower development on the Saguenay River in Canada. His plant cost $40,000,000. It would generate 600,000 horsepower of electricity a year and do it so cheaply that current could be sold for $12 per one horsepower per year. At this rate bauxite could be hauled to the Saguenay, be reduced in electric furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer...