Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...
...need for some sort of agency to whom the prospective job-hunters can turn for advice. Weary months are often wasted and many false starts made due to a misunderstanding on the part of the applicant as to the nature of the position he is to occupy. A clearing house of information of the precise requirements in the various branches of employment available would do much to remedy such lack of knowledge and at least give the advisee a clear conception of what will be expected of him. The possibilities of co-operation with the work of the Alumni Appointments...
...applications for the scholarship should be sent to Palache and should reach him before April 1. Applications should give a clear outline of the work intended as well as an estimate of the expenses involved...
...Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear . . ." And what was her amazement to hear him conclude, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the U. S." That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction...
...light of subsequent events, it is clear that the wicked widow thus flayed is Donna Barone, relict of the Fascist diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...