Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Green's career in many ways is a parallel of that of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. The former Pittsburgh from puddler is an outstanding example of a man who has risen from the ranks to a position of authority, while Green worked his way up from the Ohio mines to his present position at the head of what is perhaps the greatest labor organization in the world...
During the past decade there has been one trend in U. S. banking more pronounced than all others combined: the trend to merge, to branch, to group, all of which is essentially one trend, and all of which is exactly and naturally parallel to the developments in U. S. industry, commerce, society (FORTUNE, February). But Federal laws have opposed this trend and so, verbally...
Months ago Mr. Hoover indicated that the Senate, during its short session next December, would be asked to vote U. S. adherence to the World Court. Even with the "Revision Protocol" blocked, adherence could be voted by the Senate with acceptance of the famed "Root Protocol," the two being parallel documents. But last week the President, far from whipcracking Cuba or preparing to wheedle the Senate, gave correspondents to understand that he plans postponement of the entire issue until next year...
Bachelor William Lyon Mackenzie King has been Prime Minister since 1921, except for an interval of three months when the Conservatives got in (TIME, July 5 to Sept. 27, 1926). Thus Mr. King and his Liberals parallel the U. S. Republican Party in their long tenure of Power. But they are more like U. S. Democrats in being free-traders with a wobble toward protection...
...second floor will be occupied by a large banking institution, and on the roof a large restaurant will be built with an outdoor promenade running around the entire building. This oval building will extend to a magnificent garden plaza that will be cut through the development and will run parallel with Fifth Avenue from 48th to 51st Streets . . . the most impressive boulevard of its kind in the world...