Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked if he couldn't have kept his old pal John Maragon out of the White House just by telling the guards not to let him in. "I could do that, yes," he said, "but Maragon is a lovable sort of a chap. You cannot get mad at him. It is awful hard to do, at least." Maragon, he went on, would have to be "pretty well washed up, fumigated," but he thought that "most of Maragon's sins have not been with malice." As for Maragon's perfume smuggling, "I certainly could not condone...
...Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to 40 to 45%, clocks up to 150%, china tableware 35%, chamberpots ("sanitary earthenware if of vitreous china...
...herself alone ... As to other religions, the Church will . . . require that by legitimate means they shall not be allowed to propa gate false doctrine. Consequently, in a state where the majority of the people are Catholic, the Church will require that legal existence be denied to error . . . The Church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
...started treatment this week. Soon Dr. Harvey should be able to tell whether medicine's new weapon, which now costs $85,000, shows promise. If the answer is favorable, high-powered, penetrating X rays may be used in about 10% of cancer cases.* Whether they give lasting results cannot be known for several years...
With September's 30 days looming ahead, Stan Musial cannot afford to let his big bat cool off. Although the Cardinals have the best of the schedule (they begin a long home stand while Brooklyn embarks on a perilous western trip), they could very easily blow the pennant if Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion's ailing sacroiliac doesn't behave. Solid, knowledgeable Marty Marion is the steady man who holds the Cardinal infield together...