Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served Woodrow Wilson on the War Industries Board; who became chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two organized several years ago by Governor Hammill (Republican) of Iowa† and other Farmers' Friends; and who lobbied the McNary-Haugen Bill (first version) through Congress from a desk in Vice President Dawes' ante-room...
...Moscow "Grain Dictator" is Comrade G. K. Ordijonikidze, who is also one of the three Vice Prime Ministers of the Soviet State.* His duties: to organize the national grain sowing and harvest campaigns, to fix the legal price of grain, to stamp out speculative hoarding or other anti-social procedure. His powers: absolute, and supported by the right to declare in emergency regional Martial...
...Sovietese, Vice President of the Union Council of People's Commissars...
...suspicion that amateurism is being stretched to the outside limit of the law. Take the case of Charles Paddock, U. S. sprinter, whose amateur status and sportsmanship have long been questioned. The Sportsman, a magazine impeccable in taste, had damaging evidence against him (TIME, June, 11); a distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British protested against him. Yet his simple denial of misbehavior and a look at the rule-book were sufficient to allow him to represent the U. S. at the IXth Olympiad. John Weissmuller, fast U. S. swimmer, untainted amateur, became...
...considered increasing the charge made for placing the loans, fixing a minimum amount to be lent. Corporations countered by throwing an additional $36,913,000 on the call loan heap. Cried Charles Edwin Mitchell, president of the National City Bank: "It is a dangerous and unhealthy trend." Said able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland Trust Co.: "Clearly a reform is needed in New York banking practice." Screamed the financial writers, sensationally: "Boot leg Loans...