Word: strong
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British Empire. The strong trend of the Dominions is toward increasingly autonomous minor-nationhood, but the Empire continues to be wielded from London by the British Parliament and the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. He, moderate by nature, Conservative by party, is constantly swayed toward reactionary measures by the overwhelming Conservative majority in the House of Commons, and by three dynamic reactionaries in his Cabinet: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough...
...facto stabilization of the franc (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Therefore Signer Mussolini did well, last week, when he pocketed proud hopes of setting the lira up beside the pound. Italy, a young kingdom with cheap labor for its chief resource, cannot match an accomplishment which is straining even the strong sinews of the British Empire...
Hearst v. The Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan...
...attain a state of "pure" Lenin Communism, due to the machinations of non-Communist powers; 2) Stalin, on the other hand, holds that the Soviet state must temporarily cease to foment "World Revolution," in order to gain strength from friendly commerce with the non-Communist powers, and finally, when strong enough, press on with the "Revolution." Other clashes of policy exist, of course, between Stalin and Trotsky; but the one just sketched goes very deep. Stalin has the practical responsibility of keeping the state on a balanced budget basis, and he has learned that the co-operation of non-Communist...
...successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed a university, why such a university deserved strong financial support. After listening to Dr. Goodspeed, Mr. Rockefeller said that he would contribute $600,000 if other persons would add $400,000 to his gift. Dr. Goodspeed then organized cooperation, collected $400,000 more. With this the new University of Chicago was established; Dr. Goodspeed was made secretary of the board...