Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such a step is entirely in accordance with the constitution, despite the protests of some members of the judiciary who have asserted that no interference with the courts should be allowed. Only the courts, they said, were competent, and legally untrained minds would subvert justice to sentimentality...
...glory be the consequence of a brave advance. Where thought of honor played no part in the inspiration to action, honor, especially of the tawdry vaudeville variety, is out of place following the consummation of the deed. All glory adulation and honor to the pioneers, but when humanity makes step onward and upward without ringing bells whose clamor grows harsh, and firing too loud cannon, that will be news...
Onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor party, had recovered sufficiently, last week, from his recent illness in Philadelphia to step aboard the Cunarder Berengaria at Manhattan, for the voyage home which would close his U. S. visit (TIME...
Secondly the Cabinet cut wages, lopped off from 30% to 100% of the "high cost of living bonuses" which were extended to State employes a year ago. No Government ever took a step more daring, more dangerous. No U. S. statesman would dare cut so much as the salaries of all letter carriers. Yet there was no loud, visible upheaval In Italy last week...
...preparations at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Four sandwiches, two canteens of water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from the governor...