Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scathing denunciation of the Government's policy in Palestine was given by the editor of the London Daily Express. Commenting upon the fact that trying to find a Jew in Jerusalem is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, he said: "They are drops in the Arab ocean." Referring to the Government of Palestine, he remarked: "They are a cryptic hierarchy of esoteric oligarchs guarded by British bayonets, British aeroplanes and British armored cars...
Time-saving is in vogue in France, as well. Prevented by the Chamber of Deputies from setting the clock forward thirty minutes, the French government has ordered business, theatres, trains, in fact everything, to start half an hour earlier. According to this plan, the erstwhile midnight express will leave at 11.30; and commuters will have to get up at half past six instead of seven. Though the idea sounds plausible enough, it has not been stated how the order will be enforced...
...Even this is more desirable than receiving a cartload of Russian rubles. ¶The Council of Labor and Defence, according to the Economic Life of Moscow, has resolved, in the interest of protecting domestic electrical industry, to prohibit the importation of all kinds of electrical materials. ¶The American Express Company announced that, in view of the improved Soviet banking facilities, their money orders will now be made payable in Russia...
...earnest students were shown to favor it, he would withdraw his objections. Their opinions, vigorously proclaimed, proved unanimous; and he was quick to help bring about the change. Perhaps the present case has little analogy, but, at any rate, the discussion will lead nowhere unless the undergraduates express their thoughtful opinions...
...maintain high prices. But in the Beechnut Packing Co. case in 1922 the Supreme Court held that where there is a " suppression of the freedom of competition by methods in which the company secures the cooperation of its distributors and customers, which are quite as effectual as agreements express or implied," the Federal Trade Commission may properly interfere...