Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Dakota legislature, lately adjourned, enacted a law permitting the blend to be sold in the State as legal gas; the Nebraska legislature has relieved the alcohol content of a blend from payment of the State gasoline...
...America who wield influence with the masses of the people, William Randolph Hearst is one of the most powerful. Because of this power, he must be judged in the light of his use of it. Mr. Donham is content that Hearst "is against communism, fascism, low tariffs, the League of Nations, the World Court, the NRA, and regimentation of economic life," and claims that in this respect his position is little different from that of papers such as the New York Herald-Tribune...
...have been overridden by a cantankerous House & Senate.* Last week President Roosevelt tossed the custom of the country out the window and made a breezy bit of history by carrying Veto No. 675 up to the Capitol in person and making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...
What makes the volume really notable is the work of Doris Spiegel, a very fine sketcher who fits her clear, accurate illustrations admirably to the content. It is fun to glance through "Paris to the Life" again and again and study the excellent draughtsmanship and remarkable vivacity of Miss Spiegel's drawings...
...content with a moral victory, Jews throughout the world wished for something a little more substantial, agreed with Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermyer that the fines were "absurdly inadequate...