Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...attitude of reputable news organs toward this concept of journalistic good business was summed up, last week, by the New York World with relentless logic...
...Washington, last week, Publisher William Randolph Hearst went far toward quoting the market price which he considers sound. Testifying before a Senate special committee (see THE CONGRESS) he named "$15,000 or $16,000" as the purchase price of the recent Hearst series of pseudo-Mexican documents purporting to show that huge bribes were ordered "paid" to four U. S. Senators (TIME...
...Chevy Chase, Md., a large ram "with long, sharp horns" spied a Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont. He bounded toward her, butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran away as rapidly as possible. The ram followed her, again butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran around a tree; the ram followed her, twice butted her. At last the crew of a passing automobile truck came to restrain the ram. Bruised & exhausted, Mrs. Presmont said: "I was terrified. But its a glorious good thing...
...intrepid American flyer brought his Spirit of St. Louis down on Valbuena Field at 2.39. . . . He had covered more than 2,000 miles in 27 hours, 15 minutes . . . from the crowd delirious shouts of joy . . . motorcycle police rushed toward the spot . . . Lindbergh was lifted upon the shoulders of his new Mexican admirers and placed into an automobile which began a slow trip to the Presidential stand. . . . The American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely...