Word: ent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worsham, attorney for Mr. Carpenter's company, took the witness stand. He had just learned from Representative Patton, he declared, that the mysterious package contained two Department of Agriculture books on livestock raising. Representative Patton had taken them to Mr. Carpenter's room as a pres-ent for his son, then remembered that he could save Mr. Carpenter some postage by using his Congressional frank to send the books to Texas, hence had wrapped them up in a newspaper to take back to his office...
...graduated tax instead of the pres-ent flat rate (13 1/4%) on corporation earnings...
...plants throughout the city, was making backpage news on the ground that the firm had refused to sell small ice peddlers short lots. Next day Rubel Ice Corp. was on Page 1 of every paper in the land, and Commissioner O'Ryan had received a most unwelcome birthday pres ent...
...adhered to no party, ran with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel against Prohibition. In 1919, on a Republican ticket with Socialist backing, he was elected President of New York...
...Brit ish Parliament's Government of Ireland Act of 1920. Last week came another. Quietly at Belfast, because relations be tween the Mother Country and the Free State are now very tense, there were opened last week the magnificent Royal Courts of Justice which involved a pres ent to Northern Ireland of more than