Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator is elected by indirect voting for a period of nine years. Every three years one-third of the Senate retires, but can stand for reelection...
...added concerning the much disputed subject of indirect costs: "You must add to the direct cost of $250,000,000 a year for the first four years of the bonus and the average of $211,000,000 per year for the first 20 years the enormous indirect cost to the Government. The bill gives the right in the first three years to borrow from the banks of the country and that this right would be exercised by the great majority of the certificate holders none denies. The consequent demand for credit would raise the interest rates which the Government...
...Indirect costs that seem to pyramid and pyramid...
...fell to the lot of Wesley Livsey Jones, Republican Senator from Washington, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and official senatorial sponsor of the Harding subsidy plan of a year ago, to introduce in the Senate some suitable plan. His plan is represented by two bills for rendering indirect aid to the hard-pressed American merchant marine...
...plot, briefly, is as follows: Rosaura and Beatrice, daughters of Doctor Balanzoni, are courted respectively by Florindo, a medical student living in the doctor's house, and by Ottavio, a gentleman of Padua. Florindo's timidity, however, prevents him from declaring his love except by indirect methods. He causes Rosaura to be serenaded by hired musicians, sends her, anonymously, a gift of lace; and composes a poem setting forth his love, but containing only vague hints of his identity. Instead of handing her the verses himself, he throws them on her balcony...