Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike has kept completely out of the headlines. Citizens are apparently apathetic to it. The Federal Government balks at attempting to take over and rim the hard coal industry; and short of such a step its intervention in the strike would be of doubtful practical value. The anthracite unions are apparently "well heeled'' with cash, and their members are enjoying without much worry a long vacation. Anthracite operators are selling off their present stocks of hard coal at sufficient profits to insure them against a considerable suspension of activities...
...Locarno signifies for Germany her return as a great power. The Locarno Conference was not ideally complete in its labors, but it was distinctly a step in the right direction for Germany and the world. I have every confidence the concessions promised us in the Rhineland will be granted. The German people cannot afford to reject the pact...
Faced with such truculence within its ranks, the Cabinet resigned, "ousting" M. Caillaux by a process which superficially resembled cutting off its head to spite its nose. Actually the process was not so rash, for President Doumergue promptly called upon M. Painlevé to step up again into the Premiership from which he had momentarily stepped down...
...interpretation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law has caused many a false step that has subsequently been retraced. Recently the U. S. Supreme Court has held (in the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Association case) that exchange of information regarding sales, costs, etc., among competitors does not necessarily constitute any violation of the anti-trust...
...might almost describe the progress of civilization as consisting in this gradual enlargement of the peace group from the family to the community, to the State, to the Nation, to the World. Only the last step has not yet been fully taken and cannot be, until the United States cooperates. When the step is fully taken, when the whole world is organized for peace, when the World Court is as authoritative as our Supreme Court, we shall have abolished war as an institution wholly and forever. Each previous step of enlarging the peace group has left something outside and, therefore...