Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With even Sir Herbert Samuel taking the view that the forging of foreign trademarks is a Japanese practice as common as it is indefensible, the House of Commons adopted without a single dissenting vote a motion praying His Majesty's Government to take every step within their power to defeat Japanese competition...
Hardly had they taken over the Government than Nazis seized control of all the German labor unions and the property held in their names. Last week the Government moved toward a second step in their long-announced program: dissolution of the existing unions and substitution of an all-embracing German Labor Front under Labor auspices...
Sokoloff had been right on another score: He had found a symphonic public in New York without appealing to Philharmonic subscribers. And though he does not hope to rival the Philharmonic, a New York reputation is the first step in the fulfillment of his big idea: To supply finest orchestral music to the many big-little Eastern cities which cannot afford to pay for high-priced orchestras like the Philharmonic or the Boston. Last week the New York reputation seemed assured and the New York Orchestra began to justify its name...
Amid warm congratulations. Dr. Van de Graaff announced calmly that the voltage reached was about 7,000,000-a record for man-made lightning.* But to him the test, though spectacular and successful, was simply another step toward a final objective. If unfavorable weather had not forced him to hold his show indoors, he would have had the trucks moved outside where, with none of the stored electricity sparking into hangar walls and beams, he could have counted on 10,000,000 volts...
...even worse than he is. The Bishop has it in his power to stop him and he has not done so, although appeals have been made to him by the most outstanding ecclesiastics in this country. I believe that the time has come when the Apostolic Delegate should step in and stop this wild ranting that is disgracing religion...