Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign leadership. I do not believe that any of us feel that the business man has any monopoly on virtue, or that a man taken from the ranks of business is necessarily holier or more pious than the man who comes from the ranks of politics, yet I do know that we shall be rendering this country a tremendous disservice if we penalize every man who seeks to render an honorable and disinterested service by criticizing him for those acts which he undertakes in the public weal...
...hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation in South America," he said, "is getting much more important, as you all know, in connection with the trip of the President-Elect and also, more particularly, in connection with the drive of Europeans for those markets...
...similar, for taxes dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...
...didn't he do it? I do not know, but . . . after the fourth of March he might not have the chance...
Keenest Roman interest focused on the man from whom Il Capo snatched the Ministry of Colonies-Signor Luigi Federzoni. Some have called this strong and enigmatic statesman "The Soft Speaker for the Vatican." All know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week...