Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe so," answered the little Chancellor in a voice curiously meek and soft, "I do believe so!" and twitching himself painfully into his limousine he rode away, whistling pensively. Later, when the whole British press had begun to roar unanimous approval, the little lame Yorkshireman said: "If England is pleased, so am I. I set myself a task and it was not an easy one. Without the help of my wife I could never have achieved...
...money that Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden has just gained at The Hague after weeks of anxious toil (see p. 25) has been thrown away in a few days on the sands of Palestine, from which we shall never receive a penny in return either in cash, trade, prestige or political advantage...
Senor Gonzalo Robles, who has been Mayor of Tacna City under the Chilean regime, gloomily signed away the municipal buildings, the civic water works, the provincial railways, everything. Across the table Peru's beaming, complacent Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio in effect signed receipts. Both statesmen worked cautiously, inspecting each document minutely ere they autographed it irrevocably. Dawn broke. Presently it was high noon. Still the pen-scratching continued...
Further saddening his audience, Mr. Crabtree went on: "Chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages and country places to be taxed at the headquarters office in a far away place. ... In Iowa there is an average of 200 boys and girls per county leaving the country for the city each year. This means that the total investment (per county) of $800,000 (the cost of their education to the age of 18) ... is taken out never to be returned. . . . Those gigantic mergers in industry and finance . . . sap the farm . . . produce scores of new millionaires each year...
...bless the gods who wrought her.' Last March John Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), called the Book-of-the-Month Club "an octopus that sucks away the life blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped...