Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squalid, sweltering Muscat last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause...
...Hays, Governor Clyde Reed was waiting to dispute their economic message. Governor Reed had last month asked the Farm Board to buy 25 million more bushels of wheat to up the market price (TIME, July 7). Chairman Legge had sharply reminded him that the Farm Board was no "Santa Claus!" In their hotel lobby Chairman Legge met Governor Reed, joshed him: "Don't mind Hyde and me. We're harmless. But watch out for these economists. They're chain lightning when you tangle with them...
...enhance the possibilities for Yuletide convivialities without disturbing the year's scholastic program. Although the announcement comes at that particular time in the year when any ordinary reference to Christmas provokes no more enthusiastic display of emotion than a reminiscent leer, it bears such an unmistakeable tang of Santa Claus about it that it justifies some comment...