Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became Lord Chief Justice of England, then Viceroy of India, and finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere and Baron Beaverbrook...
...letter Mrs. Christie said that she, like her radical Congressman father, is opposed to "the system which has fostered the present great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population." That was the big news: the fact that there is actually alive a child of the late Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. who opposes what he called the Money Trust! That was the electric, potent shock which set editors editing, rotos rotating...
...important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will deal the most telling blow...
Thus were tentatively linked a great wired system (I.T.&T. controls Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp., All-America Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.) and the communication system of the greatest U. S. wireless company, with a trans-Atlantic service, a ship-to-shore service and much advertised plans to create a point-to-point system within...
...deeply shock radio-bugs who insist that because radio is the most recent of communication devices, it is also for all purposes the best. But it is probably true that wherever wires can be conveniently laid and wherever traffic is heavy, wires are better than wireless. In a world system, telegraph wires act as collecting and distributing agencies for the long-distance leaps of cable and radio. Some such far-seeing plan may have been in the minds of Negotiators Lamont and Young, last week, when they proposed to join R.C.A. Communications to I.T.&T.'s vast network of cable...