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Word: staked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday at the Union attended by over 100 members of the University, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the Presidency bitterly attacked the Republican and Democratic parties as "the double-headed party of big business". With sharp sarcasm, keen wit, and scathing mockery he discussed the campaign, the issues at stake, and the candidates, from Republican to Liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORMAN THOMAS FLAYS PARTIES | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...National W. C. T. U. last week issued a call to prayer, an hour of prayer, on Nov. 5, election eve. "Great issues are at stake and there is need for prayer for Divine guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: W. C. T. U. | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Representatives of the Krupp and Stinnes interests and the German Steel Cartel gathered in Berlin last week to inaugurate the mighty project of warming all Germany with coal gas piped directly from the mines of the Ruhr. Shortly investors will be permitted to supply a preliminary stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ruhr Gas | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...poll, stating that "nowhere is sound information on political questions more readily obtainable than in a university like Harvard". I am inclined to question the truth of this statement when the CRIMSON has done everything in its power to discourage a sober consideration of the principles and issues at stake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Opinion | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

...Clumsy, they falsified twice as many bonds of a certain series as were ever issued. Some people can see through a racket as clever as that. In cell sat Stinnes. He had been obliged to resign as president of 17 Stinnes companies in which U. S. investors have a stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Name in Cell | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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