Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the bosses could do nothing to solve the tangle, for the time being at least. Every candidate except McAdoo agreed to free his delegates of all pledges and instructions. McAdoo was unwilling. He counterproposed that the unit rule should be suspended and nomination made by majority. To this the others refused to agree. When the Convention reopened the two proposals were read, but no attempt was made to act on them. Once more the balloting commenced, once more the deadlock...
...President accused ex-Finance Minister Adolfo de la Huerta, recent rebel leader, of misrepresenting to him the attitude of American bankers regarding the loan, stated that U. S. oil men had employed obstructive tactics when a relief loan was sought; there was, therefore, nothing left for him to do except suspend the agreement...
...Author. Born a Missourian in 1872, Rupert Hughes has been writing prolifically almost ever since, except when he was an Army Captain during the Spanish-American War, and serving on the Mexican border in 1916. Among his novels and plays: The Whirlwind, We Can't Have Everything, Cup of Fury, Beauty, Souls for Sale, Excuse Me, What Will People...
...contrivance changed failure into success. In 1921, 100 bars of bullion were recovered; in 1922, 900 bars; in 1923, 11,050 bars. Operations this season were to make a clean job of it, and salvage was small. All the precious metal that went down with the Laurentic, except for a small amount of specie, has now been recovered...
...commonly thought that marriage of first cousins is bad for the health of their descendants. On the other hand, students of Eugenics are convinced from the study of such cases that these marriages are not necessarily bad, except when they tend to intensify certain bad traits that may happen to be dominant in both of the persons intermarrying. Dr. Douglas P. Murphy, of Rutherforton, N. C, now describes a case of a family whose earliest known member from Germany settled in Pennsylvania in 1731. His descendants have remained to a great extent in the same locality and have remarried...