Word: adly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...
...first measure provides: 1) a 5% ad valorem tax on all dutiable products and a 2½% tax on all duty-free products entering American ports in foreign bottoms; 2) a toll charge on all ships entering American ports, 6¢ a ton on ships of American registry and 50¢ a ton on foreign built ships under foreign registry; 3) termination of all treaties in any way interfering with these measures...
...pulling-power of a want-ad in Germany...
...reported that the President had begun preparation of his ad- dress to Congress, to be delivered on Dec. 3. The conjecture is that his chief topics will be the farm situation, tax relief and the railway problem...
Scranton, Pa. Before one of the biggest meetings that he had ad- dressed in the U. S., and to an audience composed almost entirely of Welsh people, Mr. George paid a sterling tribute to Mr. Charles M. Schwab and voiced a plea for " help, help, help." Of Mr. Schwab, Mr. George said: "He was the first man to come to our aid in organizing a more ample and efficient supply of munitions. The Kaiser offered him three times the price his great plant was worth in an effort to rob us of his support, but he stood by the Allies...