Word: availed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puffer, one of the recent additions to the squad, will probably get the assignment for mound duty this afternoon, although Cotter or Johnson are possible hurlers. If the Crimson does not emerge from its recent batting slump, however, good pitching will be of no avail...
American cargo steamers operating from New York or Boston are obviously handicapped by this advantage of the British shippers, as they are by the undiversified character of American export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...
...delegations at once developed. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania proposed an alternative, on the ground that it was unjust to deprive Southern districts of any direct representation in the Convention. Senator Howell of Nebraska and Senator Bursum of New Mexico made a stand against annulment of the reform-to no avail. Without a roll call the South was restored its full delegate strength-and a little bit more- and to offset the latter other States were also given increased representation...
President Coolidge did not make himself responsible for Mr. Mellon's proposal. It is obvious that he will avail himself of the public response in judging what to say to Congress on Dec. 3. If the President believes the public thinks well of lower taxes, the Coolidge war-cry in 1924 may well be: "No bonus, less taxes...
...Southern District of New York was to be expected because of the volume of commercial litigation in Manhattan. District Judges from California, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Alabama, New Jersey and other states have been sent there to stem the rising tide of cases on the docket, but to no avail...