Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interparliamentary Union. Gatherings of diplomats from half the countries of the world are fairly common, and assemblages of executive heads, premiers, dictators and Presidents are not unknown. But the lawmakers of the world generally remain in a magnificent isolation from international contacts. The Interparliamentary Union is the great exception. In Paris, on Oct. 31, 1888, a few French and British legislators assembled unofficially to promte the cause of international arbitration treaties. They decided however, to treat of other matters as well, and invite the legislative representatives of other countries to sit with them. In June, 1889, the first meeting...
...official family had sent a delegation to welcome back their pater familias patriae. Next day found the family reassembled?all except the substantial Secretary of War who still was ill at his summer home in New Hampshire. The hulking Attorney General strolled grinning into the White House office building, the heavy treading Secretary of Interior, the tired Secretary of the Treasury, the stocky Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg...
...creditor nation and our apparently inexhaustible supplies of gold credit in our banking establishments. Always before, lack of banking accommodations has acted as a brake upon overdevelopment of business activity. While frequently painful in application, this brake nevertheless was fundamentally salutary. Now the brake has apparently been removed, except in so far as the Reserve System can enforce such a policy irrespective of the gold hoard in its vaults...
Despite the fact that everyone except the wives and mothers of the men on board the PN9 No. 1?giant plane which vanished a fortnight ago, somewhere in the neighborhood of Hawaii?had come to the conclusion that the airship had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific or been crushed in its waves, rumors persisted that it had been found with all its crew alive. Such a message was picked up by an amateur radio operator...
...that case was plain and simple. Neither the indictment nor the statute under which the indictment was framed, contained any mention of evolution. . . . That the forbidden doctrines were taught was freely admitted by the defendant. No defense was therefore open except that of the constitutional validity of the law itself. And yet Darrow sought to browbeat and to bluff the judge into admitting expert evidence upon the soundness of the theory of evolution. And upon refusal he became abusive, highly disrespectful and contemptuous in his conduct toward the court. He had no purpose or motive except publicity and notoriety. After...