Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It was still light like the sun was about to go down. We all spread out in the cornstalks. I could not see Joe all the time.
Chief advantage of domestic valuation: to prevent fraudulent undervaluation of imports. Example: A shotgun sells abroad for $18.18. Its U. S. selling price is $43.30. The duty in the present bill is $6 plus 45% ad valorem. Valued at its foreign selling price, it will pay a duty of about...
Born in Pennsylvania 60 years ago, a Cleveland City Councilman before he was 30, Mr. Hopkins in 1924 left successful business enterprises which had amply enriched him to become Cleveland's first manager. Three times in almost three years Cleveland citizens have been asked to vote down the city...
In remote Teheran, capital of Reza Shah Pahlavi, swashbuckling "King of Kings," a hard-boiled Chicago Tribune correspondent sat down last week to cable news that a long disregarded Persian police order forbidding men and women to converse together on the street is at last being literally and rigidly enforced...
World Peace. As at all conventions nowadays, World Peace was popular. International Advertising Association President Charles Clark Younggreen led it down the aisle opening day when he said: "We have come here to present the credo that human and national differences can be settled otherwise than by appeal to arms...