Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
...York, to see how his "dream house" is coming along. The fieldstone walls were all up, the roof was going on. Secret Service men looked skeptical when the President declared that in his new hideaway there would be no telephone, no radio, no guards except an electric eye to fire a gun if any intruder came too close...
...nasal of voice, quick of wit as ever, Al Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well as law in appeals from decisions of State administrative agencies-which would give State courts more control over State wage-&-hour and labor administrators than...
...August 1, Chairman Jesse Jones admonished all RFC employes to abstain from active politics, except voting. Presumably exempted: Special RFC Counsel Tommy Corcoran, top political cowboy for the White House, who does his campaigning not among voters but among politicians...
...forty-hour law must be modified by virtue of national necessity, as well as by reason of the general situation in Eu rope. In no country in the world, except France and Mexico, is it the normal time of work. In no country of the world are factories allowed to go idle for one or two days a week...