Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delegates. To the official delegates, instructions of deeper import were given last fortnight when they assembled with Secretary of State Kellogg and called in a body on the President. With Charles Evans Hughes as their Chairman, their distinguished names were Morgan Joseph O'Brien, Henry Prather Fletcher (U. S. Ambassador to Italy), Oscar W7. Underwood (until 1927 a U. S. Senator). Secretary James Brown Scott of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Director Leo Stanton Rowe of the Pan-American Union. Three other delegates whom President Coolidge had appointed were not present to receive instructions: Dwight W. Morrow...
...number of U. S. plutocrats climbs as quickly as a monkey up a stick, but to more purpose; for this number, together with statistics on import and export, chain store business, stock and bond markets, is an index to U. S. prosperity. In 1925 there were, judging by the taxes they paid to the U. S. Government, 207 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. In 1926, judging by the taxes that were paid in 1927 and published last week, there were 228 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. Incomes over...
...prevent hypocrisy"-a modification of the McNary-Haugen farm-relief plan, substituting for that plan's equalization fee an exchange of export debentures for negotiable customs certificates which would permit farmers to import dutiable merchandise duty-free.-Democrat Caraway of Arkansas...
...sweeping approval of the Alternative Prayer Book. Triumphant, the Primate of All England and other Lords Spiritual moved over to the gallery of the House of Commons. Although they could not address its members, their three-to-one victory in the Lords was surely a straw vote of promising import...
...that his material had to be graded down from the former to the latter. He spoke of the idealism of America, and the effect the names of Lindbergh and Lincoln have in arousing it. He recounted his telling to the Chamber of Commerce of Columbus, Ohio, that they should import some foreigners to raise the cultural standards. In short he seems to have covered the cultural situation pretty thoroughly and found Cleveland on top and Pittsburgh at the bottom...