Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week another White House rule against pests became operative. Prof. Henry Flury, President of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, wrote President Hoover protesting his failure to receive a N. A. O. B. L. delegation (TIME, Aug. 19). Dr. Flury had released the letter to the press. President Hoover never saw the letter because when it reached the White House Secretary George Akerson sent it back to Prof. Flury with these words: "This office no longer receives letters addressed to the President which are given publicity prior to their receipt and acknowledgement. . . . The Office of the President...
...course this tableau was staged for the benefit of the French press and in hopes of making Chancellor Snowden feel like a Shylock. The second move of the French was to join with Belgium, Italy and Japan in presenting to Shylock Snowden a highly complex "final offer" which they claimed met 80% of his demands. What could be fairer...
...Lancashire must put its house in order," declared Scot MacDonald in a potent manifesto to the press. "Taking the industry as a whole it requires a far more active co-operative organization so that the skill of the operatives, the natural advantages of the county of Lancashire and its inherited opportunities in reputation and market may be used to the utmost under modern conditions...
...form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors. No inventor he, the Steinmetz theoretical work found fruition in three...
...Percy C. Burton of the London Press Exchange gave a voice to the business of Peace. His suggestion: let the League of Nations spend $10,000,000 advertising itself. Shouted he: "I accuse the League of Nations of stupidity in hiding its light under a bushel and of profoundly misunderstanding the psychology of the masses of mankind in failing to take advantage of the magnificent opportunities which it has of popularizing its doings...