Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Govern ment was centralized, given extraordinary powers over U. S. business, viz., the opera tion of the railroads. After the War, the extraordinary powers were withdrawn, control decentralized. "There has been revived in this campaign, however, a series of proposals which, if adopted, would be a long step towards the abandonment of our American system and a surrender to the destructive operation of governmental conduct of commercial business. Because the country is faced with difficulty and doubt over certain national problems - that is,« prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government...
...Buganda only the Kabaka himself may step upon a leopard skin, symbol of Royalty. But last week the Kabaka, clad in robes of blue and gold, led Edward of Wales to a throne chair set up beside his own and resting upon leopard skins...
...members of the board of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . It is unfortunate, with our great movement for church unity under way that we are plunged into a controversy like this. We might just as well say to the other Protestant churches: 'We won't take a step to meet you; you must come all the way to meet us.' " The pro-council faction won the question...
Certainly Mr. Bartlett must admit that Lincoln was fit for the presidency. Would Lincoln be an ideal president for Harvard College? A president of a nation does not necessarily need to possess the qualities to be president of Harvard College . . . . . . . What a calamity if Coolidge were to step from the national presidency up to that of Harvard College! Mr. Bartlett feels sure he is eligible. I, then, could very easily conceive why forty professors would "fold their tents like Arabs and silently steal away". Peter J. White Bove...
...mind there is a certain similarity between the qualities to be desired today in a president of the United States and a university president. I like to think that a man could step from one job to the other as Roosevelt might have done, as Wilson did, and is Coolidge might do, conceivably. Hoover could do this but I am wondering about Smith. He might--stranger things have happened--become president of Harvard. If he should I can recognize some of those forty professors who would stay on their jobs but I recognize others who I think, would "fold their...