Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate of the Kyoto Pan-Pacific Conference, gave the proposition the final effective push that put it over. KARL A. BICKEL...
...Warnings from the Federal Reserve Board and other prophets of disaster?warnings which, scoffed at when given, nevertheless filled the Market with a conviction of sin. 2) A period of almost two months (since the Babson Break early in September) in which it had taken strychnine-injections to push quotations ahead. The September slump (currently almost ignored in favor of the peculiar theory that the Market crashed without warning) was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb. 3) Most important of all, indications...
...presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would now get behind a strong push to form a Daladier cabinet of the "moderate centre," excluding the Socialists...
...away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting in the ginmill. Ulric's beautiful figure and husky voice go over well, but the situations are trite and the denouement in a frozen...
...great number of the football teams throughout the country will run up against their first stiff opposition of the 1929 campaign this Saturday. The majority of the big elevens have so far encountered the usual early season push-overs and no definite line on the real power of these combinations has been gleaned. Plenty has been written about the potentialities of these various elevens; optimism has reigned among their hosts of supporters, but the results of this Saturday's games will reveal the true worth of the teams...