Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President temporarily transferred Frank Ramsay McNinch from the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission. Able, sharp-faced Mr. McNinch, 64, twice mayor of Charlotte, N. C., is a close adviser of the President on power questions. He promptly announced that he knew nothing about the F. C. C. except what he reads in the papers. Last week Mr. McNinch had the opportunity to read plenty...
...demanded that small customer Portugal should not be allowed to place an order that would interfere with her deliveries. Since Britain has the least interest of the three in Leftist Spain, and since Portugal is her oldest international friend (of some 600 years standing), this possibility lacked considerable plausibility, except in one particular. When Dictator Salazar withdrew his minister from Prague he entrusted Portuguese interests in Spain not to the British but to the Italian legation...
...Jewish booksellers were forbidden to 1) sell books to anyone except Jews, 2) besmirch the reputations of Aryan German authors by selling their works...
...Revue Belge published an interview in which he greeted the Belgians, promised that after "my victory" Italy, Germany would not be specially favored by the new Spain, that even France, despite surface Leftist support, would be treated with equality. Franco said he wanted to be friends with all countries except Soviet Russia...
...admitted, "I would hardly have believed that I would sometime present the subject of cat diseases before a group of veterinarians. However, constant association with any species of animal removes many dislikes." Some of the things constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common in old, neutered toms...