Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York voters, waiting to see what Commissioner Whalen would do, recognized the Marlow murder as an exceedingly lucky break for Nominee Hylan, who had charged that the Rothstein case would remain a mystery so long as the present administration was in power because "too many politicians . . . were involved with Rothstein in his criminal enterprises." Nominee Hylan hinted that the Marlow case would join the Rothstein case as another unsolved murder with a political tinge. Before the week was out, Commissioner Whalen had eight persons under arrest, six as material witnesses, two as oldtime criminals, caught in a "fortified" apartment...
...rapid in fact were the moves of U. S. Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson and Prime Minister MacDonald, that tactful hints were sent out from both Washington and the British Foreign Office to slow things down a trifle lest another five-power naval conference be called before adequate preliminary work is accomplished...
...Poincare, who so informed the Chamber of Deputies, which was then more sternly than ever faced with the necessity of paying 400 millions on August 1, or ratifying the Mellon-Berenger agreement, or else repudiating the entire debt. That would blow France's financial credit beyond even the power of Morgan to save it. Ratification of the Mellon-Berenger agreement became more imminent...
...Archbishop recalled that when Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg he had no intention of separating from Rome but that later "Rome expelled him from fellowship with the worldly Papal power." Queried the Archbishop: "Would the Rome of today with its sense also of spiritual values have done the same...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...