Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political neophyte and William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill"; Murray, onetime Congressman-at-large and president of the State's Constitutional Convention. Candidate Murray, sometimes known also as the "Tribune of Tishomingo," played on popular resentment against depressed economic conditions, dazzled cross-roads voters with a promise to eliminate ad valorem taxation and substitute for it a graduated tax on gross incomes to get money from "the corporate interests (oil and gas companies) now leeching the commonwealth." He made a hitchhiking campaign throughout the state as "The Poor Man's Friend," promised rain, a "Howdy" sign on the Governor...
...cried, and several Laborite back benches cheered. "After all we are a Pacifist party!" Passionately objecting to Britain's £51,739,000 ($251,457,540) appropriation for new naval construction this year, Commander Kenworthy asked the Government to call another naval conference at once and suspend all building ad interim. "Otherwise we might as well say goodbye to the whole movement for Peace and Disarmament...
...reign of Edward I (1239-1307), disputes involving the ownership of birds in trees or the right to build a structure which jutted over the edge of a neighbor's land, were settled by the maxim: Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil, owns above...
Instead the new Prime Minister hastily drafted and King Fuad signed a decree constituting a second coup, dissolving Parliament until next November, creating a dictatorship ad interim. The bill King Fuad had previously refused to sign would have made it a crime to govern Egypt thus by decree, would have rendered the new Prime Minister and members of his cabinet liable as criminals to crushing fines and life imprisonment. Last week though cowed into discretion by the imminence of British guns, Nahas Pasha embarked upon a bold, quasi-revolutionary course...
...percentages-ad valorem) Anvils...