Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to repair the stupidity he has committed for months in not courting World public opinion. No democratic leader would have dreamed of preparing a war without making it appear Right & Just in advance. Il Duce, whose entire career has been studded with such aphorisms as "Fascism has already stepped and, if need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games (see p. 21), the Dictator announced that Italy...
...world's biggest industrial enterprise but by no means the most efficient. Organization and management have always been a problem. When Chairman Myron Charles Taylor took charge of Steel he promptly set out to formulate a series of long-range policies, of which the Carnegie-Illinois union, representing a step away from centralized management, is the latest result. The first policy was to retire most of Steel's funded debt. That was accomplished in 1929, saving some $30,000,000 annually in fixed charges and enabling the corporation to ride out Depression without seriously depleting its treasury. Second...
...Fascist bombs might at any minute blow up Malta. As George V read the papers he grew more & more excited. He, too, was not in London but 470 miles away at the royal Scottish summer retreat, Balmoral. Finally His Majesty could stand it no longer, took the most unusual step of causing it to be publicly made known that he had cabled Mr. Baldwin an expression of the Sovereign's readiness at a moment's notice to rush back to his Capital. At Aix the knitting needles of Mrs. Baldwin clicked confidently. Providence, Lucy Baldwin devoutly believes, guides...
...this means Secretary Morgenthau hoped to silence the telephone which had filled his ear with the profuse complaints of silver men, demands that the Treasury ought to step in and halt the fall of silver prices. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt in June 1934 pacified the Senate silver bloc by promising to buy silver until 1) it reached $1.29 per oz., or 2) the Treasury held one-third as much silver as gold, Secretary Morgenthau has been held personally accountable for the price of silver...
...made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit of '76 for commercial purposes 20 years ago all the selectmen lost their jobs in the next election. Marblehead's five selectmen quickly revoked their permission to have their famed picture copied...