Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations; 9) put U. S. livestock men at a disadvantage by raising U. S. feed prices; 10) increase U. S. taxes. President Hoover summed up: ". . . [its] theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the farmer; it would create profiteering; it contains elements which would bring American agriculture to disaster." Division. The Hoover blast against the debenture plan came after farm politics had divided House and Senate. Farm lobbyists were once more in full, though discordant, cry. The American Farm Bureau Federation had backed the administration (House) bill. The National Grange had favored the debenture (Senate...
...Charles G. Wood of the U. S. Department of Labor was preparing to leave Elizabethton because of the dark prospect for a strike settlement, Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee appointed Major George L. Berry, popular president of the International Pressmen's Union, as a state representative to bring about peace. Both sides cheered...
Music is no longer a seasonal business. When spring darkens the great auditoriums, it also throws open the stadia and amphitheatres which now dot the country. In the U. S. May brings with it Festivals Weeks everywhere; June, July, August bring symphony concerts and opera al fresco. In Europe, more and more cities and villages are bidding for tourist trade with musical programs...
Herbert Hoover, as President-Elect skipped Cuba on his Latin-American tour this year. Significant or not, this omission was sufficient to bring out of the shadows all the anti-Machado agitators in the U. S. and to guide their footsteps to Secretary Stimson's door with requests that "something be done...
...Shakespeare has told, Macbeth did murder Duncan. Presents for their daughter are more of a problem to the Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia (TIME, Jan. 17, et seq.) they were obliged to accept and bring home "for Baby Betty" no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone, or address the Girl Guides (of which she is one) without having pressed upon her-"for Baby Betty, the darling!"-everything from four...