Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to time for historians to fulminate against the theory that extremes generate their opposites. Yet from a pragmatic standpoint at least, this pendulum-like motion of events seems surely to hold true. It seems therefore hardly improbable that in its broadest aspects the German Republic was the direct result of the German Monarchy, moving as much toward radicalism as the empire held to the standard of conservatism...
Character. "We are placing a great deal of emphasis on prosperity. Our people ought to desire to be prosperous, but it ought not to be their main desire. There are other things that they ought to want more. Prosperity is not a cause; it is a result It is all summed up in a single word. It is character...
...Harding was casting about for a Secretary of Labor in 1921, there was much talk as to whether he should pick a businessman or a laborite. He compromised and chose Mr. Davis, a man who still carried his union card but who thought well of the open shop. The result was that Secretary Hoover, businessman, ran most of the labor affairs of the Cabinet. When the conference on unemployment was held in 1921, Mr. Hoover dominated it, causing Clinton W. ("Mirrors") Gilbert to remark that "the finest example of the unemployed at it was the Secretary of Labor." Last winter...
...have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...
While economists with harsh voices declaimed last season against and for installment purchase of merchandise, Lawyer Morgan Joseph O'Brien of Manhattan, 74, father of smart Kenneth O'Brien* and eight other children, studied the selling credits of 34 industries and found them good risk. The result is the $31,000,000 American Rediscount Corn., which was to start business in Manhattan last week, after the method of the Federal Reserve banks. Lawyer O'Brien is chairman of the company's advisory committee; Comptroller Lawrence H. Hendricks of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...