Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gary is an important figure in international business and in Missouri was formerly chairman of Missouri's first Road Commission and is the man principally responsible for the beginning of Missouri's present system of good roads which was carried through under the slogan "Get Missouri...
...Postmaster General New asked to be heard. The Senators returned from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers...
There are two types of rabies: cerebros final irritation (furious rabies); nerve system degeneration (dumb rabies). Both are fatal after symptoms occur. The only hope lies in an early application of the Pasteur treatment...
Away from London, last week, sped heads of every important communications system in the British Empire. They were well pleased with themselves, for they had just agreed that, with the consent of the Dominion and Imperial Parliaments, they would merge all their services into a single, gigantic corporation. And they had guarded against internal wars between radio and cable factions. They had asked the government to keep the balance of power...
...with three independent, competing systems, was not so well pleased. International Tel. and Tel. merged, this spring, with the telegraph and cable companies of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. But Radio Corporation of America, restrained by federal act, cannot fuse with cable companies, cannot merge with International Tel. and Tel. or with the mighty Western Union system. Divided, competitive, U. S. cable and radio chiefs wondered how they were to battle Britain, already ahead, for first place in the world of international communications...