Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet may differ, but today they are entirely in accord on the necessity, on the urgency and on the means of financial salvation. "We will submit to you in a moment a bill intended to cover the present insufficiency of our resources as compared with our commitments. To avoid for all time new risks of inflation we ask you to vote indispensable increased taxation along with the principle of important economies." Continuing, M. Poincaré mentioned the debts of France to the U. S. and Britain equivocally, but in such terms as to leave no doubt at the time that...
...portions of a picture in which yellow was present, Mr. Ives photographed the picture through a violet filter. The red and blue elements of the picture were then found through green and orange filters. In each case a screen was used, the rulings being set at different angles to avoid exact superimposition. Plates were made from each of these color-pattern negatives, and printed one over the other-exactly-with the result that the original subject was reproduced in its natural colors. The points of screened primary color lay close beside each other (as painters have learned to place them...
Last week Mr. Morse lost his attempt to avoid standing trial for using the mails to defraud. Said special Assistant Attorney General Dobyns: ". . . Judge Taft said he agreed to free Morse [from the Atlanta Penitentiary years ago] and Morse agreed to die in six months...
Cold-blooded murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor...
Their Spanish Majesties, desiring to avoid the pomp of a state visit, settled themselves in a cozy-suite at the Claridge. Their Britannic Majesties, tactful, welcomed them for lunch at Buckingham Palace...