Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told the House in substance only what he had already told U. S. and Canadian reporters, namely that: 1) The forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from which the Prime Minister quoted copiously last week) the two Governments declared, "in a new and reinforced sense," that...
When Calvin Coolidge, then U. S. President, pushed aside Senate bill No. 3185 of the 69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...
...Raskob took his flayings in good part but gave no. immediate sign of retiring. Without reference to his own plans he proposed that the Democracy start the groundwork of its 1932 campaign at once. "The most glaring example of our lack of efficiency," he said, "is that, we allow a political organization to lie practically dormant over such a long period. ... I see no reason why we can't function right through the whole four years...
This weakness in fundamentals is not the result of a warping of sound principles. The fault lies further back, in the groundwork of mind training. Social and economic environment, primary and secondary school criteria are contributing factors. Parents want their children to be educated, but they themselves have no true understanding of education. The best they can do is thus to put their children through an educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful...
...Americans Should Produce Their Own Rubber." Thus U. S. industrialism went to Africa, in the person of white-belmeted, soft-spoken Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr.. with engineers, chemists, physicians, builders. The Firestones chose Liberia for the first all-American rubber plantation. With typical U. S. efficiency, the groundwork was laid by refinancing the shiftless Liberian government, then obtaining the right to plant rubber trees over an area of 1,000,000 acres. With typical U. S. generosity, Mr. Firestone paid more than the average African wage. Liberian blacks receive 25? a day, in cash. Last week, the Mandates Commission...