Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning to politics itself in 1903, he became a reform candidate for the old Common Council of Boston, but, forced to buck the Innes machine of "regular Republicanism" that was even then in power, he was defeated. A year later however, he won, and soon rose to the presidency of the body...
...Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical voters is still to be reckoned with very seriously...
...which the Copley Players labored faithfully to reproduce yesterday afternoon. It is particularly unsatisfactory to discredit a move towards higher dramatic art, but "Hedda Gabler" was made rather for the genius of one great actress, than for the honest efforts of a stock company. It needs that spark of power to carry it across...
...there to stop them. The U. S. has generally taken the attitude that China must be given tariff autonomy before she can "grow up" out of her present weakness. Japan claims, apparently with supporting documents, that Imperial China granted the right to administer her customs "to the foreign power whose trade with China is greatest." And Japan now asserts that Japanese trade with China is heavier than British, and wants Britain to turn over tariff collecting...
...delegates represent the U. S., Netherlands, Portugal, Japan, China. Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the They are meeting pursuant to the Nine-Power Treaty negotiated to settle Chinese tariff problems at Washington (1921-22), which was only fully ratified last August. This treaty was, of course, negotiated simultaneously with the famed Five-Power Washington Naval Disarmament Treaties, and another Nine-Power treaty promising an inquiry into the Chinese "extraterritoriality" system, which will be made at Peking in December...