Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing mystifying about his "I-do-not-choose" statement. His reason for refusing to say specifically that he would refuse the nomination if it came to him, was because "it would not be in accordance with my conception of the requirements of the Presidential office." His determination was to prevent his nomination and to this end he sent his secretary Everett Sanders-"a man of great ability and discretion"-to Kansas City to divert convention votes for him. Wrote Mr. Coolidge (Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan italicized it) : "Had I not done so, I am told, I should have been...
Safety. Inherent stability is what every exhibitor claimed for his plane. Only a Department of Commerce certificate warrants confidence in such claims. Most craft at Detroit last week did have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which...
...afternoon the federal left wing reached the town. Street fighting commenced. The railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...
Flappers & Socialists. The newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
...considered from the point of view of the Governing Board of the Union, it is evident that this new system will make it possible to increase the efficiency in management. The fault of the present practice is not with the Graduate Secretaries, but with their other activities, which necessarily prevent them from devoting a sufficient amount of their time to the affairs of the Union. The new manager will be confined to one field, and will thus be able to be of greater use in his position. The traditions of the past may be destroyed but the increasing demands...