Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of drink than any of the European countries where liquor is freely sold. The idea that this is the only country where alcoholism is a great problem is a pure fallacy. In fact this is the only country where it is not. We hear a great deal about bootleggers and drunken students in America, but do we hear of families being broken up any more as a result of drink...
...like the Volstead Act which prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks. A very good criterion of whether or not prohibition has had a beneficial influence among the workers of this country is the reports of Social Service organizations, which are unanimous in saying that the conditions they deal with are better since the prohibition law was enacted than they were before...
...Administration is strongly opposed to the "equalization fee" idea, describing it as an excise tax on necessities. It likewise does not like the idea of having a government board deal in farm produce. But on the face of first expressions of opinion it seems the dirt farmers prefer the Haugen bill, because it would not put the burden of dealing with the entire surplus on a few cooperatives, which might not be equal to the occasion...
Gilbert and Sullivan were such an amazingly clever couple that most of the recent producers giving their works have spent a good deal of money on costumes and left the rest to the words and music. In reality the operas need the deft and specialized treatment demanded by any unique type of entertainment. Probably most producers, preoccupied with sex appeal and the Charleston, do not understand Gilbert and Sullivan. It has remained for Winthrop Ames to reveal them so perfectly that everyone may understand and may enjoy...
...before the National Trade Council convention in Charleston, S. C., the Commercial Club of Chicago gathered in Chicago to hear Dwight W. Morrow, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., discourse on the aims and methods of investment bankers who deal in foreign securities. Mr. Morrow rarely talks in public, but always to the point. Money, said he, should not be collected by war: "Entirely apart from the immorality of putting human lives to the hazard of modern war where the sole issue is a pecuniary claim, there is a conclusive practical reason against such a course, in that...