Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two gentlemen with their "regular" Republican supporters can kill radical tax measures in committee. But once they send out on the floors of the Senate and House bills of the Administration, the radicals and Democrats can amend and alter them to their hearts' content. The result would be bad for the Republican Party and unsettling to business. "For expediency's sake,," say Messrs. Smoot and Green, " we ought not to try to do what we ought...
...down to a large extent a corrupt civil administrative system and will have gone a long way toward crushing the power of the Tuchuns and reunifying China. Observers have it, however, that the President will be no more than a figurehead and that little will be done to alter conditions now prevalent...
...France as well as Germany has suffered by the occupation. Now that victory has come at last she is hardly likely to soften the rigor of her demands. She will continue her occupation of the Ruhr until she achieves her hopes or until she is forced by circumstances to alter her present attitude. England's attitude is a constant puzzle. Lord Our son recently issued his strong pronunciamento calling in question the legality of France's move into the Ruhr. Then last week Premier Baldwin had a conference with premier Ponicare the nature of which has been kept profoundly secret...
...Executive Secretary, a man of affairs, the President's alter ego. He would in turn have charge of the following four assistants...
...speeded up news transmission to those department stores of knowledge, the daily newspapers, so the aeroplane, it seems, will accelerate the news department stores' deliveries to their customers. Assuming that such a thing as aeroplane circulation for newspapers develops, it will open new journalistic problems. It will entirely alter the question of what is the proper size of a newspaper. National dailies should develop with a national circulation. By competition they might drive local newspapers out of business- much as large metropolitan department stores have treated neighborhood stores. On the other hand, aeroplane delivery would greatly alter the question...