Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hebraic orthodoxy and Roman materialism ? If so, would He work through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked through a disciple but the Imperial Roman business men ignored Him and the orthodox...
...bill of 1926 having been constructed by the Ways and Means Committee of the House and passed by the latter body practically without alteration (TIME, Nov. 23, 30), last week passed through its third stage the total tax reduction from $325,736,000 (as proposed in the bill as it came from the House) to $500,000,000, this to be done by a large reduction in the rate at which the public debt is retired...
Diplomats recalled that the President has been at some pains to make it clear that he intended no slight to Anton when he was forced to cut short the latter's ill-timed harang. A note of explanation was later despatched from the White House: ". . . it is not permissible for the President to receive public address from people of another nation, unless they be presented through the usual diplomatic channels...
...Splendid" restaurant on Harvard Square has been sold to the Georgian Cafeteria Company, according to an announcement made by the latter organization yesterday afternoon...
...would perhaps be even more ludicrous to judge the Senate by the prayers it listens to than by the speeches delivered from its floor. As it is well known that the latter are often violent but hollow, so it has just been complained that the former, however devout, are puerile. Alonzo g. Anthony, a proofreader of Reading, Pennsylvania, writes in a letter to Senator Pepper, "The language used by Rev. J. J. Muir, Chaplain of the United States Senate, is like that of a third grade schoolboy...