Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action served to stiffen rail bond prices, give rail stocks a gentle fillip. Pennsylvania was reported ready to bolt the merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...
Thus emerged in the campaign "the Garner issue"?an attempt by the G. O. P. to frighten the conservative electorate with the spectre of what would happen if a Texas "wild man" like Nebraska's William Jennings Bryan were placed within one step of the White House...
...them termed Senator Borah's "conversion," the Liberal News Chronicle recalling that "he has been hitherto one of the most uncompromising opponents of debt revision." In the City (London's Wall Street) there was a cozy feeling that Cancellation-With-Strings-Attached must be the first step toward Cancellation, whether Senator Borah knows that his "conversion" has begun...
...step backward. . . . The preamble asserts that the time is ripe for disarmament but all the subsequent contents of the resolution represent an utter negation of that assertion." Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could...
Spectators readily excused the mess the Foot Guards made of their drill. All earnest young men, perspiring in the broiling sun under immense fur busbies, the Foot Guards marched out of step and had difficulties with their bayonets while trying to execute a few simple evolutions. Up drove Premier Bennett in his glistening Stearns-Knight (an "orphan car" no longer manufactured). Up drove other delegates in official Buicks. In the House of Commons, kleig lights blazed upon the Throne, movietone cameras whirred, microphones were switched on and Lord Bessborough began to read the King's message while all delegates...