Word: steps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which will give its members six months of compulsory training. We will call up every half-year from 8,000 to 10,000 men. ... A second body of troops will be set up, led by officers and under- officers of the army. ... It may be regarded as the first step toward universal military service...
Representative Marland, who lost a $65,000,000 fortune with his Marland Oil Co., was the first gubernatorial candidate to step into the 1934 Democratic primary. He promised voters to wipe out the $12,000,000 State deficit, up oil prices, make capital investments secure. By law Democratic Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray is forbidden to seek reelection...
...fired growers to the R. F. C. for crop advances, is also seeking (and will probably get) R. F. C. assistance in financing the deal. Bitterly opposed is Universal Tobacco Co., a syndicate which has contracts to supply the Spanish monopoly with dark-fired tobacco, and which now must step up and pay Mr. Caldwell's price. Nashville believed, however, that Mr. Caldwell's promise of quick cash to growers would outweigh any political pressure that Universal might bring on the R. F. C. Rogers Caldwell & Co., his new banking house, had nothing to do with the dark...
...attempt to smoke him out of office. The Mayor of New York by common consent holds the third most important elective office in the U.S.- If he is able and ambitious he may be chosen Governor of the State, from which office it is but one long step to the White House. He greets more distinguished foreigners, delivers more speeches, lays more cornerstones, makes more important news than any other U.S. mayor. The Mayor of the nation's second city- hustling, bustling, brawling, sprawling Chicago-should by rights rank next to the Mayor of New York in national prestige...
...forged bonds held as security for deposits of State funds in Kansas banks-found them lying in the vault not more than a yard from the bona fide original bonds of which they were copies, owned by the State School Fund Commission. Governor Landon then took the extraordinary step of personally ordering an arrest...