Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unassailable-either ratify or pay at once "through the nose." But to Propagandist Franklin-Bouillion logic is something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion. Working himself by degrees up to a whirlwind climax, he pointed an accusing pudgy forefinger at M. Briand, shouted defiantly: "You cannot and you shall not force France to debate the debt settlement with a knife at her throat...
...weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel-law the government allowed the deputies to vote a resolution expressing their conviction that no matter what engagements France may undertake she simply cannot pay the U. S. more than she receives from Germany...
...managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep pace with its readership. "Trick" layouts, a special testimonial issue, salesman's "thermometers" in the office and other features of the hard-driving Annenberg technique, did not bring in the business as fast as required. Rapid changes of advertising...
...There is practically no product that cannot be produced somewhere in this great empire," said Privy Seal Thomas...
When a U. S. woman buys silk stockings, she frequently purchases some tin along with the silk. How much tin she is buying she cannot know, for there is no standard way of testing silk. But for her protection and the protection of the manufacturer of her stockings, the American Standard Association is considering tin-silk test standardization...