Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation, then, is that a World Court is a fundamental necessity and that there is only one World Court available. Moreover, unless or until America joins the League of Nations, there is no practical way in sight for our joining the World Court except that which was worked out by Secretary Hughes and approved by Presidents Harding and Coolidge as well as supported by the party platforms of both political parties. There is no excuse, therefore, for making a political issue out of the Court, and any man who, like Senator Boran, talks about repudiating the party pledge...
Malcolm E. Nichols '99 was leading the Boston mayoralty race at a late hour last night. He had an insecure margin over his nearest opponents, Glynn and O'Neil. Thomas C. O'Brien '08, the only Harvard graduate except Nichols among the ten candidates, was trailing...
...large Texas has no complaint against its Governess except that she leaves affairs too much in the hands of her husband. Things have been happening, or are said to have been happening, which are laid at his door. For example, the Governess has pardoned or paroled over 1,000 convicts in the ten months she has been in office. (The previous Governor, Pat M. Neff, issued only 17 pardons in his entire term). Her husband is said to have a job as attorney for the Sugarland Railroad that yields him three times as much salary as a governor gets...
...personally would be glad to make some sort of a move, but he is timid, with his ear always to the ground, afraid of public opinion, which, when watching European affairs, is completely uninstructed in America. So, it seems, that Europe need not expect much from America except the usual duns about debts and loans on profitable terms to Americans...
...Rome there had been farewells pregnant with import and seasoned with emotion. Count Volpi was closeted secretly with Benito Mussolini just before his departure. And the whole Cabinet except Mussolini, assembled at the station to see him off. There was kissing. There were cries of "Viva Volpi! Viva Italia...