Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little more than a courtesy visit. Mr. Hoover is traveling too rapidly to have time really to become acquainted with men and things along the way. Nor need we look for immediate political or economic results, except in so far as the visit influences Mr. Hoover's policy and that of his government after March 4 next. The development of American trade depends largely, if not solely, upon our ability to offer better goods at better prices. And improved political relations depend upon the policy of our Department of State in Caribbean America, and upon the way our Congress manipulates...
...been loaned to planters to produce the next cotton crop. He viewed with alarm the Federal Reserve effort to discourage market gambling by jacking up interest Crates because the effect of this policy is to make borrowing injuriously expensive for "legitimate business." "There is nothing wrong with America except the evils of mad gambling in stocks and cotton," announced Governor Graves. Iowa's Hamill and Nebraska's McMullen (chairman of the conference) agreed...
...that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great courage, and against the.advice of his councillors, downed this libel, once and for all, with a solemn public affirmation that he had never been married to anyone except Queen Mary...
That all parties except the minute Communist group have supported George V with increasing loyalty and devotion since the beginning of his reign in 1910 was never more evident than during the appalling British General Strike. Then if ever, British labor would have raised the cry: "Down with the Throne...
...Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." Since "T. R." is now dead and "Il Duce" has risen, President Leguia is sometimes called, "The Bantam Mussolini of Peru"-except by admirers who hail him as greater than either of his nickname-sakes...