Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising," asked Earl Beatty in seadog peroration, "that there is apprehension among those who have given thought to this vital question, and that there should be dismay among those who cannot understand how parity in cruisers can be arrived at unless it is to be a parity having regard to the commitments and obligations of each nation? . . . There is no nation, whose naval commitments and obligations are so great and so complicated as the British Empire...
President Squelches Briton. Chief event in Mexico last week was the settlement by bullnecked, square-jawed President Emilio Fortes Gil of a strike which has paralyzed for a fortnight the British-owned Mexicano Railway, vital link between Mexico City and the major Mexican port of Vera Cruz. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution approving the strike as fully in accord with the ideals and aspirations of the Grand Revolutionary Party. Police prevented British Manager J. D. W. Holmes of the Mexicano Railway from hiring strike breakers. Finally President Fortes Gil intervened and settled the strike by decreeing that...
...effect supporting the private grain commission men, the chamber's agricultural committee declared: "The Chamber advocates cooperative marketing . . . only in so far as they are not discriminatory against other private enterprise. ... It is of vital importance to the preservation of private capital investments in storage and other physical marketing facilities that the duplication of such facilities by use of federal loans be not allowed
...institution of such a plan of open tournaments will do much to settle the question of the supremacy of the courts also. While this is admittedly not a vital matter, still it will afford a great deal of satisfaction to tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly...
Warned the Commission: "The Pennroad Co., by acquiring stock control of a railroad, can bring it under common control with the Pennsylvania without itself controlling or being controlled by the latter carrier as such. . . . Common control can be effected by a chain, one vital link in which is made up of the control exercised, directly or indirectly, over two or more corporations by individuals. . . . [This] may result in the suppression of competition...