Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ornamentally idle have been the lives of military aides to the President that Army and Navy he-men well have dreaded the assignments, right honorable though they are. The chief duties were: 1) to stand grandly by when the President received new foreign envoys; 2) to pass tea and sandwiches smilingly at White House at-homes; 3) to add splendor to the President's official trips...
...South the union labor movement has made the smallest headway. Of old U. S. ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they...
Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history...
...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
Largest European corporation is I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. (TIME, April 1), largest European earner as well with its $25,000,000 (1927) net income. Yet, though 25 million is no puny amount in any man's hemisphere, U. S. corporations would hardly stand awed at its magnitude. Of some 500 U. S. companies thus far reporting 1928 earnings, 28 exceeded the I. G. F. A. G. figure. Nine passed the $50,000,000 mark. Of these nine U. S. Steel and American Tel. & Tel. exceeded $100,000,000, and General Motors established its own class with the astonishing earnings...