Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classes of taxpayers, except a small number of the very largest, in all three tax reduction bills under the last two Republican Administrations, came through the Democratic Party." 3) "The farmer has learned one thing about the tariff, and that is that it compels him to buy in a highly protected market and to sell in a free world market." Amounts contributed by large manufacturers who are beneficiaries of the tariff prove the iniquitous character of the policy. 4) Republicans defeated farm relief in the 69th session. 5) Democrats favor "an honest trade law that will stimulate business by fair...
...Dillon is of course the enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant enough to negotiate the sale of Dodge motors last year for $146,000,000 cash, yet sufficient ly orthodox to declare: "There is no advice you can give a man except this: 'Do your job better than that job has ever been done before.' " The absorption of a mere ten million gold marks of Diskonto Gesellschaft paper, last week, was in sober truth mere routine for Dillon, Read, who have placed $85,000,000 of securities for the Government...
...backs. In their cloth caps was scrawled this legend: "If we are dead when you find us, we are saved." Propped up in bed at home, Randolph Cobb told a terse, simple story: "We laid there till Friday morning, I guess, and then we all got victory from God except James. He failed.. We prayed on then until Sunday morning. We had only our carbide lamps. I told them I was going to do some writing. I turned to James and said, 'Roy, are you right or are you wrong? I'm going to put down what...
...must learn early about fleet machines, for at 13 he began to study mechanical engineering and soon after to drive racing cars. In 1913, aged 18, it took him but two months to earn his pilot's certificate. Since the War he has stayed in civil aviation continuously-except for the eight-day honorary term as mayor of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe, his birthplace in the Vosges. The Motives. Captain Fonck came to the U. S. last year for the Pulitzer air races. Hearing that Engineer Igor Sikorsky was building monster trimotored planes on Long Island for long-distance flights...
...fighting, some 30 men sat silently thinking, and when the sun had dropped behind vast Mont Real they had reconsidered and restruck every swing and slash of the three-day battle and each knew why and just where he had lost the prize, but they could do nothing. Nothing except congratulate the winner, a freckled mite of a Scotsman, Macdonald Smith...