Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the river, he amends the situations be left untouched. The current is now with him, both physically and morally, and the going in considerably easier. The camp meeting he breaks up; to the two derelicts of the industrial world he gives a new start in life; and his step-mother, he persuades they could never be happy together. He comes upon the girl he loves on the eve of her marriage; and after rendering her fiance sufficiently disgusting with a strong emetic, he snatches her away before she knows what is happening. Through the night, pant a burning airplane...
...Benjamin Rand in Saturday's CRIMSON writes ". . . lost we forget, these who have been splendid in service and sublime in suffering." Eulogizing the dead and the living soldier, praising his heroic martyrdom, he hallows war. He makes it a holy step in a path of glory, threats it as the means to "peace and nobler life," actually calls those "happy who actively served in this great cause...
...knows exactly where the next story is coming from. Consequently, a news break is like a rainbow in the sky. But this column-writing business is another story. Anybody who thinks a column a day, year in and year out, must be just too much fun for anything, can step right into my office for a bust in the snoot...
...Italy. Germany, Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping...
...necessity for such a drastic step ended when President Wilson was returned by a margin of eleven electoral votes. To Secretary Tumulty President Wilson expressed his belief in a parliamentary form of government which, in a crisis, falls as soon as it has lost popular support. Up to this week no Republican had yet suggested that in the event of party defeat President Hoover replace Secretary of State Stimson with Governor Roosevelt and then, with Vice President Curtis, resign...