Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turmoil which preceded the Civil War gave birth to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Born of politics it has remained aware of politics today when its most conspicuous spokesman, Bishop James Cannon Jr., is known throughout the land less as a man of God than as the bitter friend of Prohibition, the sweet foe of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists and foreign correspondents believe, Japan is unfriendly to the Chinese Nationalist Government : "A strong China with a government capable of enforcing its will over the entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many years, would enable Japan to further its trade, would increase our prosperity and would rid our nationals in China of the constant fear under which they have lived for so long. "Japan's position in the Far East is that...
...least three things at once?grab as many prosperous small railroads as possible, shove his opponent away from good roads towards poor ones, avoid kicking the I. C. C. (i.e., the public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp. So the railroad executives withdrew to secret confabulations and pacts...
Absolutism of one sort or another, so popular at present in southern and eastern Europe, is undoubtedly justified in a case where ten years of representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...face value, this suggestion was but a blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators...