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Word: importance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fund raised by the larger corporations to import contract labor from Europe is the proposal of Lewis L. Clarke, President of the American Exchange National Bank, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Something New | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...intention of going to war. The most that can happen is the abrogation of the trade agreement and the consequent withdrawal of the British Commercial Mission from Russia. Russia has proved no El Dorado to British interests, so that the entire question ceases to have any grave import. Russia maintains that her territorial waters extend to twelve miles from the coast line, whereas the international agreement on territorial waters states three miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Curzonophobia | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

Coincident with Secretary Mellon's announcement that March income taxes were $63,000,000 in excess of expectations, it was announced that the customs receipts for March brought the total income from import tariff to $405,753,000 for the first nine months of the fiscal year. On this basis tariff receipts for the year may be expected to aggregate $550,[)00,000 or more. This is $100,000,000 more than expectations from this source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Vanishing Deficit | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...drawn, rather than spoken lines) in this country? We have innumerable competent political artists (Darling, Rollin Kirby, McCutcheon) a few with streaks of genius, none of the stature of Daumier or even of some of the lesser men abroad. If a green uniform would help, let some benefactor import...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Green Uniform | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

Politicians who would import defectives to be their constituents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 7, 1923 | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

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