Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since, however, it is not illegal to exhibit prizefight films, the law has become almost a dead letter, except in cases where an attempt has been made to import prizefight pictures into the United States, when a customs inspection can be made. The reason is that if the pictures can be successfully smuggled into a state, the government cannot prevent exhibition. Congress can regulate commerce, but it cannot prevent the showing of pictures any more than it could stop the sale of liquor before the Eighteenth Amendment...
Fortunately, this oversight was soon corrected by the advice to sell securities, again accompanied by the mystic chart of many colors, and of profound scientific import to those who understand it. Yet this latter comment, issued during falling prices, is scarcely prophecy...
...happenings in the financial markets has been the fall of the mark to another low record for all time, although after the record output of nearly one trillion paper marks in a single week, this development is not illogical. As bearing upon the general situation, probably the most important happening has been the establishment for the third successive month of an import surplus in our foreign trade of May, amounting to $51,000,000. This indicates that the long expected flood of foreign goods in our markets has begun, and that local manufacturers had best proceed with caution under...
...That in explaining the closing of the American consulate at Vladivostok he gave as a reason that the Soviet Government had confiscated property of the General Electric Co. and the International Harvester Co., worth $300,000. It is said that the goods were seized because of unpaid import duties...
Speculation on the part of newspapers points to the fact that the incident has grave political import. This is not true. There may have been forces at work to make it appear so, but it is undeniable that the Poincaré Ministry enjoys the overwhelming confidence of the Chambre des Députés. The Senate has never been over friendly to Poincare on his Ruhr program, but at the same time it has not been antagonistic as a whole. Its decision on the Communist case was juridical and directed against abusing the use of the Senate...