Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Agricultural Adjustment Act was rewritten in 1935, it authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to arrange marketing agreements on almost every kind of farm produce except honey. Last week, bees were finally brought under the supervision of the U. S. Government when the President signed a special bill authorizing Secretary Wallace to enter into marketing agreements with beekeepers...
Borah: I say the Congress of the U. S. could not get rid of nine insane men except through the power of impeachment. That's what was done in the days when the Constitution was observed...
...Synod. He was charged by Nazi Church-Minister Hans Kerrl with publishing a letter last winter falsely accusing Minister Kerrl of mocking, in a public speech, that ABC of Christian doctrine-that Jesus is the Son of God. Three competent attorneys appeared for Dr. Dibelius; the public was admitted except when Minister Kerrl was present; the press was admitted throughout the trial...
...split them up to cross the State. In 1929 the two roads estimated that the law was costing them $1,000,000 per year, started court action to have its enforcement restrained. In due time a U. S. District Court gave ear to their plea, finding the law useless except as a "make-work" measure and interfering with national control of interstate commerce...
Watching yacht races is a bore. Consequently, the sport normally attracts about as many spectators as a good game of ticktacktoe. Colossus of yachting is the series of races for the America's Cup. Consequently, watching America's Cup races would be a colossal bore except for one fact. So many people think they want to see the America's Cup races that almost no one does. Last week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly...