Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently, Bolshevism has reached its apogee, has begun to wane. Diplomatic circles heralded the change as a virtual liquidation of the Internationale and the ushering in of a new era, shortly to be announced by Trotzky, which is, once for all, to recognize the rights of private property and the sanctity of inter national debts. But the future alone will decide whether they are right...
...against it by the Lockwood Committee of the New York Legislature in the course of an investigation of the Manhattan housing shortage. Mr. Untermeyer charged in his letter that General Electric was "whitewashed" by onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, and that J. P. Morgan & Co. had "virtual control" of the Company. Mr. Manly added pepper to this highly-seasoned letter by declaring that Mr. Dwight Morrow, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. and classmate of President Coolidge, possessed an "overshadowing influence in the present administration." Then Owen D. Young, Chairman of General Electric, retorted sharply, denied that...
Arguing, therefore, that the Texas "white primary" law is virtual, if not actual defiance of the "race, color or servitude" provision of the Constitution, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has engaged counsel to carry an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. Associated with the counsel will be Moorfield Storey, a leader of the bar in a city famous for its championship of the Negro−Boston...
...what was victory for the Premier was defeat for the Minister of War. Mussolini covered his own retreat to a better position, but left his rear guard, Di Giorgio, slain on the field. The virtual effect of the offer of delay was to withdraw the Reform Bill and General di Giorgio was prompt to resign. His resignation was accepted; and. Premier Mus- solini, who is also Minister of Foreign Affairs, became Minister of War ad interim...
...This control of South America is only one outcropping of the imperialism of the United States. Our money has made us virtual owners of the world. We will continue to gain power in Mexico and elsewhere until finally at some rather far off date we get the licking that is coming...