Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge in signing the bill, would have left Midshipman Cardwell in disgrace. But Congress acted in time and so, last week, with six hours to spare, did President Coolidge. The bill set forth that Midshipman Cardwell, an honest youth, had simply been pressed for time. His good name stands clear...
...HorseMeat Clear Soup) Pat de Foie Gras...
That "sport" is "work" within the meaning of the Lord God is as clear to Queen Wilhelmina as the fact that the Allah of the Mohammedans undoubtedly meant to prohibit "spirituous liquors" when he prohibited "wine." The mere fact that neither "sport," in the modern sense, nor "spirituous liquors" had been invented when the Gods uttered their respective prohibitions is immaterial...
...Song of the Three Children," in the prayer book of sects which have prayer books. Recently, a U. S. court admitted tax-free a cargo of Douai Bibles. These, however, included the Apocryphal book which Mr. MacVeagh had imported separately. The court's ruling made it clear that for legal purposes the Apocrypha is part of the Bible only when it is bound with the other universally recognized books...
...first thing for the Presbyterians to do was to elect a moderator to succeed Dr. Robert E. Speer. This they did with rapidity on the first ballot. The new moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This...