Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to specific inquiries as to religious affiliations among Governor Smith's political appointees, New York's Jewish-descended Secretary .of State, Robert Moses, published the following tabulations...
...there are also bits of such as the following, from a letter written by Mr. Hoover to a friend to "answer some of the solemn discourses on my private life and crimes...
Here is the big scene. You have been waiting for Major Powell to face his old servant after sleeping with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills...
...defenders of the administration answer that taxes have been reduced, they find themselves in a similar dilemma. The total taxes collected are $24,000,000 more than in the first year of the Coolidge administration. While tax rates have been reduced and some Wartime taxes abandoned, the government actually took from the people in income taxes $383,000,000 more during the last fiscal year than during the first year of the Coolidge administration. And even these reductions in tax rates have been brought about primarily because the administration has committed the government to appropriations authorized but not made, amounting...
Nellie: "Joe, dear, my answer is yes." In February, Joe Sleet sent Nellie Wallace a ticket and she came to El Paso. He saw then, for the first time, that Nellie Wallace was fat as butter; she appeared cheerful however and he did not regret his correspondence. They had a wedding...