Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week by calculating out loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this attack, the President assumed a role of arbitrator between Congress and the Army engineers who had told the Administration what to recommend...
...compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work might get started on the rivers below Illinois at once, Mayor Thompson's bluster vanished. He went back to Chicago saying he would work to draft Mr. Coolidge again for President. When Representative Reid next called at the White House...
Chief of Police Michael E. Hughes of Chicago having announced that he had stamped out a great part of his city's crime (TIME, Jan. 30). Chicago has been peacefully humdrum in recent weeks, except for a few episodes, such...
Christopher Columbus passed as the Mayor cried: "There is the greatest man that ever lived. Except for him, I'd be in Ireland...
William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter for publication in his 25 newspapers on January 30, stating that he was "distinctly and definitely opposed to any representative of our newspapers or news services receiving any decorations or honorarium from any foreign government, except for patriotic service rendered America's allies in time of war." Last week, Moses Koenigsberg, president of the International News Service, Inc., and other Hearst syndicates, was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor of France at the Manhattan home of Jeweler Pierre Cartier, forthwith resigned all his offices with Mr. Hearst. It is believed...