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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...federal government can not rightfully impose tariff duties except for the purpose of securing revenue. The high Republican tariff is an instrument for the arbitrary redistribution of wealth. We pledge ourselves to a tariff for revenue only, arrived at by a gradual period of readjustment, downward revision of all duties beginning immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATS PUT THEIR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER | 5/14/1924 | See Source »

...Methodist Quadrennial General Conference, 850 delegates, including every Methodist Bishop in the world except three, met at Springfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Pow-Wow | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...Divorce. (No divorcee can be remarried by a Methodist minister except the innocent party in a case of unfaithfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Pow-Wow | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...word article in The New York Times raised the question of the honor which is due to the four American Cardinals in this country, and urged that they be treated as foreign princes and given precedence over every American official except the President. It was pointed out that the British Sovereign accords to cardinals honors due princes and that William H. Taft, when President, gave precedence over the Governor of Massachusetts to Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. The question of precedence is sure to arise, said Frederick Cunliffe-Owen, journalist. It must be decided by the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precedence | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...normal persons throughout their lives, he reached the conclusion that "moderate steady drinkers have a better expectation of life at all ages from 30 to the end of the life span than do total abstainers." Heavy drinkers have the poorest expectation of life at all ages after 30, except that heavy-drinking males from 65 on are about on a par with the total abstainers. The figures are calculated in the same manner as insurance life tables, and according to Dr. Pearl, the material is "the most critically adequate" in both quality and quantity that 'has ever been available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Academy | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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