Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States. The ever-present issue will confuse and prevent clear and clean-cut popular decisions on the most important national questions, and the politics of the Nation will be demoralized as the politics of States have been through this cause. The issue will never be settled...
...ponies were forgotten; they did not care, they did not know. Polo ponies, like racehorses, are amateurs; they play the game well only because, in some way that is not clear, they love to play...
...entirely clear to the layman, this threat was not misunderstood by fearful traders. It meant, in two words: "BROKERS' LOANS." And to emphasize the point, brokers' loans mounted last week to $4,569,978,000, highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...
...Tuesday the ninth you came to the Harvard Democratic Club as a liberal Democrat and gave reasons why the present Republican regime should be brought to an end. As we do not feel, however, that the reasons you gave for this change were either clear or fully developed, we ask you to answer fully the following questions in order that liberals may see just where you and the Democratic Party stand...
...becomes clear that the responsibility of supplying the University with its most urgent athletic need rests with the alumni, and with whoever else may be in a position to contribute toward its construction. Until the sum of $300,000 is subscribed to meet the complete cost, actual work cannot start. The element of time does not enter alone into the question The conditions of the original gift of $250,000 which gave impetus to the plans stipulated that construction be begun by February 1929, and be complete by February, 1930. Failure to meet the first of these conditions will mean...