Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As to utility progress under a Labor ministry, Lord Birkenhead remarked: "The present ministry is for state ownership in the abstract. Yet this same government is helpless to take any steps in that direction."
At about the same time a clerk in the Ministry of Finance entered the round sum of two million drachmas ($26,000) in his ledger under the heading Secret Government: Expenditures. News organs throughout Greece were warned by the official censor to publish no account of the affair. Friends of...
The machine itself is a splendid old specimen: a strong, high-backed, Spanish oaken chair equipped with an iron collar and a plunger just beneath. A powerful lever at the back of the chair tightens the collar, strangles the condemned, at the same time forcing the plunger into the back...
Development of group banking in the U. S. has been rapid. Long a leader of the movement is the Transamerica Corp., holding company for the Giannini institutions. Of many similar organizations formed this year, largest until last week were the First Bank Stock Corp. (TIME, Sept. 2), now controlling 43...
* The San Francisco Opera Association and the Los Angeles Opera Association work in collaboration. The producing companies and repertoires are essentially the same. The chorus is picked from local talent in both cities. The orchestra for the Los Angeles Opera is made up of players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic...