Word: etc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Excise Taxes. Groups from several industries asked for abolition of the taxes on the things which they produced?automobiles, f i r e a r ms, cameras, jewelry, etc. The taxicab drivers wanted their $10 tax abolished; the motorboat and yacht builders wanted the tax on motorboat users removed...
...group of undergraduates in some college conceives the idea that the collegiate opinion of the U. S. needs "crystallizing" on some issue or other. There is a firm precedent for nationwide undergraduate straw ballots on the League of Nations, presidential candidates, Prohibition, disarmament, the lecture system, chapel attendance, etc. Usually the organizer and his fellows are connected with an undergraduate newspaper which they wish to make famous for its feats in their year, or they are bent upon making a name for themselves, or they are inspired by a faculty idealist, or they are simply overflowing with exuberance and vitality...
...Bloomsburg, Pa., a wild animal show came to town; the lions roared all night. Soon citizens began to miss their dogs. Then a small boy spied a dog-collar in the lion cage; others saw pieces of paws, etc.; the gloating lions roared no longer. Indignant police told the circus to leave town. Out it went...
...Father and Son tell how they found relief from liver disorders by taking Black-Draught," etc...
...statement by Governess Miriam A. Ferguson as to why she would not call a special session. (Some persons were loathe to believe that a woman- or, at least, a refined woman-had written this statement, which included a reference to "this crowd that is howling about a special session," etc.) Two columns more were given to a statement by George W. Keeling. It is best to let Mr. Keeling speak for himself...