Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most people this seems to be merely a gross grab for power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived...
Then after just two days of discussion the Foreign Ministers came to a "perfect identity of view," announced that the Axis Powers had agreed to form a firm political and military alliance. Considering the firmness of the Rome-Berlin Axis, a formal military alliance seemed to make no change in Europe's balance of power. But what the Foreign Ministers had announced by implication was that Italy would automatically come to the help of Germany in case of trouble, and vice versa. With the fate of the Free City of Danzig already at issue between Germany and Poland...
Commissar Litvinoff has never been much of a power inside the Soviet Union. He was not even a member of the Political Bureau and had been a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee for only five years. He probably did not even formulate Soviet Foreign policy; he was a brilliant diplomatic technician. But in the world's eyes he was identified with that era of Soviet policy when the U. S. S. R. backed up strongly every move to curb the aggressors, pushed forward the principles of collective security, allied itself with democracies, put its face...
Fighting neck and neck for Eastern Intercollegiate League supremacy, the power-ridden nines of Harvard and Dartmouth will face off in their second and final tilt of their two game series tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...Tall, handsome Charles Simonton McCain, who has headed both the smallest and the biggest U. S. bank, last week resigned his presidency of $577,000,000 United Light & Power Co. to become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president...