Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then spoke Secretary of State Kellogg: "I believe it is a great step forward in civilization-a great moral step...
...Calles. The Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican organ, replied with a repetition of its accusations linking the Mexican executive's name with General Obregon's murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...
...guessed that Mr. James was weaving an "integration" (merger is forbidden by law) of western roads with a mileage of 38,500. He owns vast amounts of stock in Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Southern Pacific, Denver & Salt Lake; Western Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande Western. But first step in the "integration" must be consolidation of his Great Northern and Northern Pacific, now before the I. C. C., vigorously opposed both by minority interests and by the competing Chicago. Milwaukee. St. Paul & Pacific...
...worst thing that could happen to this country would be a step backward in our fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
Running Hop, Step and Jump. Won by Mikio Oda of Japan, 49 ft, 10 13/16...