Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voting, a plan was hatched. It sounded good: $150,000,000 was to be set aside as a revolving fund to aid in the marketing of farm products. This was to be paid for by an equalization fee. But to lure the Dixie Senators, one-half of this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization fee was to be deferred for three years. This alliance was supposed to be potent enough to bring at least a tie vote. Thereupon, Vice President Dawes would probably cast the deciding vote in favor of the bill. Mr. Coolidge would...
...Reed later returned his attention to mild-mannered Counsel Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, asking him if he had been correctly reported in a speech three years ago to the effect that Drys had "invested" 35 millions in Prohibition. Mr. Wheeler thought that was approximately the amount, counting in all the different agencies embattled. He admitted that for "a few years" just prior to the passage of the Amendment the League's bills had come to $2,500,000 per annum. For the years 1921-25 inclusive, the national body of the League, not counting branches...
...evident that Soviet Russia is unique in the amount of verbal abuse which it will tolerate from a British minister...
Unquestionably the U. S. has lost a certain amount of prestige in Latin America through the failure of negotiations thus far. The U. S. position was sufficiently set forth by General Lassiter in his speech to the plebiscitary commission, released at Washington last week: "Flagrant as have been the outrages to which Peruvian electors and sympathizers have been subjected and pitiful as have been the sufferings of the helpless victims it it not these outrages themselves that in my opinion have constituted the most serious phase of the long continued course of violence, oppression, persecution and discrimination that "has marked...
...Earnings over and above the efforts of labor and the use of money should be turned back into the business, one-fourth of the profits to be kept to keep the business progressing and the remainder returned to the members in proportion to the amount of business transacted...