Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel Corp.'s claims, and claims similar, for taxes dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...
...tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
...Newark, N. J., Field last week for testing. Its 46-ft. fuselage is 11 ft. wide, almost twice the ordinary width. Its nose encloses two water-cooled V-type, 662-h. p. engines. The fuselage has room in an 11 ft. by 17 ft. space for 20 passengers, and back of that, place for 1,000 Ibs. baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines, Inc., to carry passengers between New York and Chicago...
Introibo. In his own way, Cardinal O'Connell, senior U.S. dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church† planned his Christmas, back home in Boston. Christmas eve he will say farewell to his inseparable companion, the black French poodle Moro, to pay a visit to orphan asylums. Christmas day he visits the hospitals. But at midnight, when the first bells peal their glad tidings, he enters the chancel of his Cathedral of the Holy Cross, vested in stately robes, to pontificate at the midnight mass, oldest of Christmas rites...
...Paris-presumably Gershwin himself, since he was there recently on the proceeds from his musical comedy tunes.* He leaves his hotel on a sunny spring morning, starts gaily down the Champs Elysees to the first walking theme. Taxis stop him first. Their horns amuse him, so four horns came back with him to the U. S. to make their debuts with the Philharmonic. ... On he goes, swinging his cane, past a cafe door where trombones are moaning measures of La Maxixe. On he goes, past a cathedral, or perhaps the Grand Palais, slackens his pace a bit, then passes...