Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed and later accepted when higher postal rates were provided to meet the cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto was sustained. A bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon the nation's revenues"- the flood control...
Wakefield has long been known as the president's birthplace; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has just purchased 267 acres of the estate, on which the old house will be reproduced at a cost of about half a million dollars. When it is completed, together with the Strothers Farm, which it is hoped to have rebuilt, and with Mount Vernon, there will be three important shrines of the nation's hero...
...desirable results of the dead fumble from the practical point of view are a generally desired uniformity regarding fumbles, and a reduction in the loss suffered by a team thru the error of an individual, who is usually entirely responsible for a fumble that may cost the game. From the romantic point of view there is the objection that one of the thrills of the game has been removed, although this is somewhat offset by the opinion of other authorities that a more open and spectacular game of double and triple passing will result...
...leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more expe-ditiously...
...there was another consideration: if the jury should decide that Leonardo had been the painter, Sir Joseph's remarks might cost him as much...