Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe has resigned; nor does it seem worth printing that his resignation is attributed in Vienna and Rome to a "suggestion" from Pope Pius XI. Undeserving of a line is the fact that there are in Austria two irregular armies, both anxious to try a bloody bout for Power. It is not even worth explaining that at the root of the political crisis there is a law-championed by the Communists and fought by the Catholics-which today enables the working people of Vienna to rent houses for next to nothing by paying their landlords at the pre-War rate...
Meanwhile the two U. S. Dollars rolled merrily along on motive power furnished by many a U. S. Dime. For Lawyer Chadbourne and Jobless Swope, officially designated as representatives of U. S. shareholders in British G. E., had ceremoniously assessed each shareholder whose authorization they carried the sum of 10? per share to pay expenses of the journey...
...tariff, there would appear to be no limit to the willingness or power of the Government to give Cheneys and others the rates they need. But in this respect, silkmen cannot agree among themselves. Not alone did Vice President Horace Cheney represent the Silk Association of America before the House Ways & Means Committee at Washington. A. P. Stapfer was also there. Mr. Cheney suggested rates double those of 1909. But Mr. Stapfer suggested reduced rates on georgettes, crepe de chines, flat crepes. Reason: the Cheney group is exclusively manufacturing; the Stapfer group both manufactures and imports; and yet a third...
...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
...still-brewing public utility propaganda scandals. That public utility men had bribed and teachers accepted was made patent last year when the Federal Trade Commission, investigating public utilities, discovered the extent to which propaganda in behalf of private as against state ownership, control and operation of light, power and traction companies, had been slipped into public school texts and lectures by paid publicists and conniving teachers (TIME, July 16). The National Education Association shortly after appointed a committee of ten to uncover propaganda-spreading teachers and public utility bribers. The committee, headed by able Dr. Edwin Cornelius Broome, Philadelphia Superintendent...