Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rooms" of Atlantic City hotels would doubtless resolve against any interference with their affairs by the U. S. Government. To this Senator Couzens retorted that unless Business, as represented by its national chamber, did something concrete to relieve unemployment and contribute to industrial security, Congress would be forced to step in and do its job for it. Excerpts from the Couzens statement...
...Australia disgusted with Theodore, Scullin & Co.? Believing that she may be, Opposition Leader John Greig Latham (Nationalist) took a drastic step last week. He resigned, handed over leadership to a politician of broader popularity, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, former Acting Treasurer of Australia. He, by attracting to the Nationalist cause waverers and independents, may be able to roll up a vote that will unseat Labor...
...your officers had yielded ... it would have injured the spiritual responses of the American people. It would have been a step on the pathway of Government doles. . . . We are dealing with the intangibles of life and ideals. ... A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury. . . . In all this there is the imponderable of spiritual ideal and spiritual growth. . . . You have renewed and invigorated the spiritual life of the nation...
...draft movement. But last week in Maryland Dr. Joseph Irwin France, one time (1917-23) Republican Senator, reversed the usual procedure by announcing his candidacy for the nomination against President Hoover next year. Truthfully he added that he had no promises what ever of public support. As the first step in his campaign to secure that support, this eccentric politician deposited $270 with the Maryland Secretary of State as his price of admission to the preferential primaries...
...years after Lenin's death Stalin took three steps forward by abolishing Nep, stamping out Nepmen. Last week Stalin took one step back, permitted correspondents to announce as blatantly as they liked an experiment he has tried out quietly for some time in various parts of Russia: the state...