Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been the usual amount of come-on in the French press during the past week anent the exact location of the next...
...inspired by the free-trade policy. It has aroused new hopes among people who were beginning to despair of ever being offered a straight forward constructive policy as a remedy for our unemployment and poor trade." In point of fact the Beavermere scheme for "Empire Free Trade" is the exact reverse of '"straight-forward." Trade is to be free within the Empire, but around the Empire is to rise a tariff wall. Deliberately contradictory, this '"straight-for ward" scheme has been denounced in Parliament by all three parties (TIME, Feb. 10), a fact of which the manifesto proceeded...
...than one House member.* Only one State, Illinois, has two Representatives-at-large, in addition to 25 regular Congressmen tucked away in their own districts, because it is gerrymandered and does not choose to carve out two new districts, at the risk of upsetting Republican preponderance, to meet its exact allowance of House representation. Illinois' Representatives-at-large are sort of Class B Senators: their pay is the same and they are chosen by the same State-wide electorate. But on the House floor they behave like other Congressmen...
When President James Rowland Angell addresses visitors on Alumni Day (Feb. 22), Yalemen will know the exact extent to which the House Plan may supplant the sacred rites and traditions of Old Yale...
...account for this rapid expansion, Eatonists give credit to neither stock manipulations nor managerial ability. His special genius is in organization. Speaking in exact, ministerial tones, casting penetrating looks from his blue eyes, he wields great power when it comes to exhorting ancient industrial rivals to quell their jealousies and lock their arms in Christian fashion before fighting the fight for bigger profits...