Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present act. One of the chief of these changes is a proposal to create a traveling Board of Tax Appeals of from 7 to 28 members appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and serving for ten years at salaries of $10,000 a year. This arrangement would avoid the necessity of taking tax appeals to Washington...
Several alterations in schedules were approved, notably the change in the date of the Yale Dual Track Meet to June 7 to avoid conflict with the Olympic tryouts. This change is subject to the agreement of the Yale authorities. It was also voted to change the dates of the baseball games with Princeton, so that the game in Princeton would be played on May 17 and the one in Cambridge on May 24. This vote was taken at the request of Princeton on account of the fact that the Childs Cup Race is to be held at Princeton...
...through the motions. I remember how I felt after I had played 102 weeks in 'Little Johnny Jones'. The very sound of the overture made me sick. I used to say 'My God, have I got to go through with this again!' That is what I am trying to avoid in my new shows, because it is bound to be noticed by the audience, and as I said before, it's the box-office that reveals a show's success...
This young-looking Filipino holds the post which was vacated by the astute Sergio Osmena who preferred to sit in the Philippine Senate under his brother politician, Quezon. It may have been that Osmena foresaw unprofitable struggles with Governor General Wood, and preferred to avoid a position of open leadership. At any rate, Roxas was made Speaker of the House and side by side with President Quezon of the Senate has opposed General Wood. Now he comes to Washington for the thankless task of trying to convince the Administration that the Philippines should be made independent. The political prognosticators prophesied...
...peace." (The whole Chamber, including the Communists, cheered this pronouncement. ) "Your unanimous agreement against the return of the Hohenzollerns will be known this evening throughout the world. . . . I ask you to pass judgment on the attitude of a Government which would have preferred immediate, rapid sanctions, but which, to avoid a break with the Allies, preferred to adopt their point of view...