Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events at the Hague Conference were in such a desperate snarl last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden continued bickering for a bigger piece in the reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 12 et seq.), that progress could best be traced in terms of personages...
...sleepers last week, was the chairman of a great oil company who slept the sleep of the just, weary from his pharmaceutical labors in the dispensary of the Federal jail in Washington, D. C. Not only the cloistered seclusion of prison walls but trust in his company's progress protected his rest. For, while Harry F. Sinclair slept and while he worked, plans were going forward for enlarging his company's outlets...
...formed, it would be to collaborate with the U. S. A., with everybody working in unison, bound together, of course, by advertising. Finally world peace was made a prime member of the convention by a resolution: "That this Congress . . . solemnly declares peace and international goodwill are essential to industrial progress and commercial success...
Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have known anything about them," was the reply...
...Bold Scot MacDonald who suddenly changed front, last week, ordered an airplane and flew from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh, where strike conciliation efforts were in progress. Arbitration seemed overnight to have become his goal. After a morning of high pressure secret conferences with cotton folk the "Flying Scot" hinted to correspondents that a basis of arbitration had been laid, would divulge no detail...