Word: excessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more francs than last year, the new budget was hailed as a "retrenchment." This paradox resulted from the fact that much of the equipment purchased last year for the Moroccan war (TIME, June 7) has not yet been paid for and accounts for the excess of this year's budget over last year's. Le Senat- ¶Welcomed back into its ranks Senator Victor Henry Bérenger who resigned last week as French Ambassador to the U. S. M. Bérenger whose "businesslike" personality impressed Secretary Mellon most favorably and went a long way toward making...
...NORTH AND SOUTH SHAKE SWEATY HANDS OVER PLOW" -Thus yelped a headline in the Chicago Tribune. The cause was a convention of 80 farm organizations at St. Louis, Mo., where midwestern and southern delegates demanded immediate legislation by Congress to "enable the farmers to control and manage excess of crops at their own expense, so as to secure cost of production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers...
Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
There is no doubt that some statistics have been helpful in a great many ways, but one of the faults of this day and age is that of carrying things to excess. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the field of statistics. All one needs to discover something of value is plenty of spare time and a Saturday pencil. This may explain the appearance of so many neat columns of figures nestling in the pages of newspapers and other periodicals, but that is about as far as most of the explanations carry. The not result of all the compilations...
...general policy of Mr. Mellon was to use Treasury surplus to retire the national debt; this time the President had to make a political move and make it quickly. The announcement came from the White House: A study of the revenue returns shows a surplus in excess of $250,000,000; hence the President will recommend that Congress speedily vote a 10% or 12% rebate or refund on the income taxes payable in 1926 for incomes of the calendar year 1925. This applies to all corporations, industries, individuals, but not to so-called nuisance and admission taxes...