Word: important
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting is taking place, is noted for its rich iron deposits; and in the views of some the war is in reality for their possession, Abd-el-Krim supposedly being under the thumb of Germany, who has promised to import all the ores which the Riff chief can deliver...
Following this outburst, the Government gingerly introduced a bill to levy import duties on agricultural and industrial products. If passed, the bill will operate heavily against U. S. exports, but the Government sees only the necessity of protecting the growth of trade deficits abroad...
...comment inflated the receptive pages of journals, hebdomadals and mensals to show whether or not the election of Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to the German Presidency meant "this," meant "that." A consensus of more reliable opinion averred that the Field Marshal's election was an omen of good import, that it meant the beginning of a rule of law and order with no immediate, though probably a later (one writer mentioned ten years) restoration of the monarchy, that it presaged a fuller return of foreign confidence and a resumption by Germany of her place in the comity of nations...
...William Smith Culbertson to be U. S. Minister to Rumania. Mr. Culbertson has been a Republican, a Tariff Commissioner and yet- friction's cause-not entirely sympathetic with the epochal Fordney-McCumber tariff. He joined recently with the Democratic Commissioners in officially advising the President to reduce the import duty on sugar-advice which has so far been ignored. But Mr. Culbertson has none of the insurgent's zest for battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with honor. The President surveyed the field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined...
...York Times type): "Ah yes, isn't it unfortunate! But we are forced to compete with papers like The World and, besides, it is our policy to be encyclopedic. Almost any news is fit to print if treated in the proper spirit. Now here, the sociological import was considerable, really; intensely interesting to scientific students of these matters. . . ." ¶(Papers of The New York Herald-Tribune stamp): "Well, the conservative, law-abiding, well-to-do citizen wants to be kept abreast of the justice of the land. They discuss these cases down at the Stock Exchange, at lunch. Anyway...