Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...askew, reporters grumping over their accommodations. Only man aboard the David Livingstone special whose morale was tiptop was Alfred Mossman Landon himself. Unsparing of his strength, resolute in his good cheer, confident of his election, the Republican Nominee was battling his way forward against obvious odds and, at each step, improving his campaign technique...
...article opens with a reference to Yale's contract with the Atlantic Refining Company for the sale of football broadcasting rights, saying that this act brought out into the open the whole question of professionalism. The next step is judged to be the direct payment of players by the oil company...
...second step toward a better world of gold, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. this week announced that the U. S., Britain and France had reached a temporary agreement for the exchange of that metal in the course of trade. Though Secretary Morgenthau called this pact, secretly negotiated by transatlantic telephone, a "new type of gold standard," it was really nothing more than a technical extension of the U. S.-Franco-British agreement of last month to use their respective stabilization funds to steady the dollar, the pound and the franc (TIME...
...Government will at all times find us willing, with good will and loyalty, to do what they direct as though we were under legal compulsion." Meanwhile last week the tiny Papal State, the small Kingdom of Albania and the minute Republic of San Marino devalued their currencies in step with the Italian lira. In Berlin persistent rumors had Realmleader Adolf Hitler "greatly annoyed because Reichsbank President...
...expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous surgical appliances useful in his specialty...