Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, about three weeks after Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration was liquidated by the Department of Agriculture, the N. E. C., long recognized as no flower but a cumbersome New Deal weed, was uprooted by an executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Except for its Press Intelligence service, which may continue under another bureau, its personnel of 251 will cease functioning December...
...Walter Lippmann: "For several reasons the mind of Walter Lippmann has been open to visitors every day except Sunday, when a small admission fee is charged, and so any comment here would be superfluous. Anybody can go and see for himself. He will find the excursion listed in the guide book under the heading, 'Cave of the Winds...
...miles of costly, well-constructed roadbed through the nine dark ridges of the Alleghenies. Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels. For half a century nothing stirred in those dark caverns except some albino, sightless trout which according to Pennsylvania Highway Planning Division's Director Kaulfuss "mysteriously developed in these unnatural, impounded waters...
With corn prices up 21? in 15 days to $1.1 6 a bu. it became apparent that shorts could not cover their obligations in time except at the longs' terms. Farmers National Grain Corp., leading U. S. grain co-operative and a leading short, formally complained to the Commodity Exchange Administration, charging "major manipulation." C.E. A. Chief J. W. T. Duvel cracked back with a stinging rebuke : "Every time there is a price rise or fall, there is an outcry from those who lose money." Two days later, however, having already tripled margins and taken the unusual step...
...Except for its duller opening chapters, covering Jackson's brief retirement at the age of 55, Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President matches the calibre of the first volume. Once Andrew Jackson is launched on the campaign that made him seventh U. S. President, Author James is pleasantly at home with a career which translated into politics "Old Hickory's" roaring virtues as an Indian and British fighter, frontier gallant, gambler, duelist. Apart from its fresh portraiture of Jackson, the book offers a well-lighted view of the background events which provided the dress rehearsal for the Civil...