Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next Step. The Dawes and MacDonald speeches evoked pages of polite applause from the world press. What the next steps would be remained vague. Ramsay MacDonald flew down from Scotland to London, said "Flying is the only way to travel," but announced no further disarmament plans. His proposed visit to the U. S.? loudly protested by Tories as undignified toadying to a foreign country? disappeared for the time being into a mist of postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick...
Last week the Democratic party, seeking efficiency, took a step to change this system, to give its publicity point and printability. It hired away from the arch-Democratic New York World famed Washington Correspondent Charles Michelson, to be national Democratic publicity...
...super-government of businessmen to rescue Chicago from its mire of municipal debt came a step closer last week with the selection of an advisory commission of 27 bankers, lawyers, merchants to serve as experts in this crisis. The movement toward such an organization of potent citizens has been taking shape for the last six months (TIME...
...thank you for reminding me of my mother," said he. "That courageous woman would not have her son take such an unworthy step. I will not sign...
...Stanford in 1925 a movement was begun that in a way makes amends for the cut and dried aspect of the lock-step system. Under the title, The Independent Study Plan, a means is offered whereby the student may use his own initiative in his university work. The plan is open to students of exceptional qualifications at the beginning of their junior or senior years...