Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge assured inquirers that he would approve a budget provision to continue the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the political and financial activities of interstate public utility companies (power trust). The latest development in this inquiry was the refusal of the Electric Bond and Share Co., wide-ramified holding company, to surrender information sought by the Commission. If the case gets into the courts the Commission's work may be so delayed that the promised appropriation will not be spent for years...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public control of water power sites, which in the first instance belong to the people them selves, and the operation and ownership of a going business [e.g., railroads]." He defended his Prohibition proposal only by reiterating that it was oldtime Jeffersonian States-rights doctrine...
Woonsocket, Manville, Albion. As the Derby waved wide and high, cheers swelled. Berkeley, Valley Falls. All along the roads, school children and mill wives shrilled "Hello, Al! Hello, Al!" Central Falls and Pawtucket, hulloos and shrieks ? then Providence...
Quite by chance librettist and musician were brought together to do a curtain-raiser. An astute and sporting manager, D'Oyly Carte, saw the possibilities, launched the inimitable comic operas which have been wide favorites these 50 years?H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzancc, Patience, lolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore. But it was also D'Oyly Carte who charged the famous £140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection...
...Harvard Republican Club will take part in the country wide pre-election demonstration of partisans of both parties when it occupies a prominent sector in the big Republican torchlight parade in Boston, Friday night. The club will manage its own section of the parade drawing its recruits from members of the University who are supporting Herbert Hoover in the election...