Word: dependents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well how very great is the achievement of M. Raymond Poincaré). He continued: "You are aware that the budget for 1928 is about to be finally presented for Parliamentary approval. ... It will depend upon the two chambers whether the results of ten months of labor are to be consolidated in the budget, or whether all the work which we have accomplished will be rendered useless. . . . Should that occur we will fall back again into the abyss from which we have climbed,* and we will...
...sounding phrases," said she, "emanating from the silver-tongued orators of the 'pink' variety . . . are not meeting the present world situation. . . . Instead, it is our red-blooded American citizens of the Marines and the Navy in whom we must put our trust and upon whom America must depend if she is to keep her ratio of the world's peace...
President Hibben then stated his idea of the real value of a man to a community, saying that it "did not depend upon his being a so-called law-abiding citizen; his conduct must also conform to the standard of some self-imposed law. . . . Fear of penalties at best can only be a restraining influence. Respect for law based upon fear alone has little or no value in the life of a community . . . . It becomes more and more evident that no government can make man moral...
...Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize not only a stationary population in this country, but also throughout the world. Whether this stationary state will be one of misery for the majority of the people, is in China and India to day, or one of well-being and happiness, will depend largely upon voluntary restriction of population...
...Armour Grain Co. the expulsion means dissolution. Without trading privileges on the Chicago Board of Trade it cannot conduct the cash business upon which its profits depend. Those profits have not been large in recent years. Sometimes they have been displaced by losses, which Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the Armour family, has paid from his own funds. This is so, although the company owns six great grain elevators, including the Northwestern in Chicago (largest in the world), and leases ten others. In these elevators it can store 28,800,000 bushels of grain. In effect...