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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explicit denial by the U. S. on adhering to the World Court of any obligation under the Treaty of Versailles or in connection with the League of Nations; and the stipulation that the World Court shall not render an opinion on a matter of interest to the U. S. except by consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD COURT: U. S. Entry? | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...getting 100,000 votes. Two years ago he conceived and executed his brilliant scheme of having his wife elected Governess on an Anti-Klan plank. An amnesty bill was ram med through the legislature to make him thoroughly respectable once more; and all might have been serene except that, as he sat at the executive desk helping his wife out, he was careless again and let some highway contracts get by, which necessitated the resignation of two highway commissioners and the return to the state of $600,000 in excess profits from one contracting company alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rodeo | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Reports from Spain and France indicated that Dictator-P r e m i e r Primo de Rivera had stamped so vigorously upon the embers of the miltary revolt (TIME, July 5 et seq.) that he, too, was able to stamp off to Paris with no fears except for Paris hoodlums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Week | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Lawyers for both parties issued the following statement: "It is to be regretted that any publicity in connection with the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Cravath is necessary. There is nothing to say except that it is true that Mrs. Cravath has decided she prefers to live apart from her husband, and Mr. Cravath, while regretting the separation, has yielded to Mrs. Cravath's wishes in that regard. "Mrs. Cravath has taken an apartment at No. 910 Fifth Avenue, where she will reside. Mr. Cravath will continue to live at his present residence in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 19, 1926 | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...hours, 55 minutes. Mrs. Cyrus Jr., or her husband, paid $7,037 for the ride. Mrs. McCormick, the only passenger, traveled with a full train crew. She tipped the Pullman conductor $50, the porter $30, a passenger agent $50. And that was all there was to that, except that a lone lady seldom hires a special train, as she would a taxicab, and the newspapers simply had to tell about it. There must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks, there was nothing mysterious at all; no illness, marriage, divorce, or other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McCormick | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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