Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provisions of the award were that half of the award ($50,000) should be given when the plan was selected by the jury. This was done. The sec- ond $50,000 was to be given if and when 1) in substance and intent it was approved by the U. S. Senate or 2) the Jury of Award decided that it had an adequate degree of popular support...
...Court, basing its decision on the spirit and intent of the codicil, decided against the contention of the companies and ruled that not every debt in a strict legal sense was meant. The word "forgive," declared the judge, introduced a personal note...
...Egyptian "crisis" was the mere symptom of a widespread disorder. Self-determination, so loudly proclaimed from the Hall of Mirrors in 1919, now passes current, quite contrary to intent, in Egypt, in India, in Morocco, and in the Philippines. Even China demands that a people's right to wage civil war in its own way--in fair weather, with Sundays and holidays off--shall not be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
...passage of the Edge-Kelly Bill, increasing the pay of post office employes, over the President's veto; opposing a modification of the Japanese exclusion clause of the Immigration Law; endorsing citizens' military training camps in so far as they are good for youth and not militaristic in intent: asking the abolition of convict labor: demanding Federal laws prohibiting the transportation of workers to communities where there are strikes; favoring the abolition of tax-exempt securities...
...fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster lion and does just that in time for a happy peroration. The intent is comic...