Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's veto of a bill 1) to continue for one year the reduced 3-2% interest rate on loans made to farmers by Federal land banks, and 2) to postpone the restoration to original levels of interest on farm mortgages held by the Government. With every Republican except Senator Vandenberg, and even such economizers as Senator Glass voting for the bill, the President's veto, already overidden by the House, was rejected 71 to 19, and the bill became law. ¶ Unanimously passed a bill previously approved by the House to repeal Section 213 of the Economy...
...Follette report was by no means the last chapter in John L. Lewis' unsuccessful siege of "Little Steel." As far as Mr. Lewis was concerned the strike was still on, except against Inland Steel and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plants in the Chicago area where Indiana's Governor Townsend had patched up truces. There was heavy rioting last week at Republic Steel plants in Cleveland and in Cumberland, Md. But some of Mr. Lewis' coal miners returned to a Sheet & Tube captive mine last week, and reopening of all captive mines was expected shortly- except those...
...Russians are plenty good as airmen, but they don't speak any language, apparently, except their own and never mix with pilots of other nationalities. They are grim and secretive rather than congenial...
...without vacations, he carries on the pace. By nightfall his nerves are in knots. Formerly he used to take a few drinks of straight whiskey in order to relax. Nowadays his friends have persuaded him to substitute Scotch highballs as easier on the stomach. The liquor serves no purpose except to relax him. Usually he then has a dinner engagement, maybe several more engagements during the evening, but he likes to get home as early as possible to romp with his two adopted children, to see his wife who used to be his secretary when he was in Congress...
...today were not part of the old common law. A bankrupt was treated as a criminal. Statutes eventually freed debtors from the fear of prison and by passing through bankruptcy m his own community a man could be released from all his debts anywhere in the U. S. except for taxes and debts for fraud or willful injury. Yet thousands of indebted individuals, because of distaste for bankruptcy or ignorance or inability to take advantage of bankruptcy provisions, have suffered the penalty of having their wages or salaries attached under garnishment proceedings. There were an estimated 2,200 such cases...