Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the Treasury were paradoxically the very things that militated against her immediate confirmation. Confirming her once, the Senate withdrew its approval for further consideration after Senator Couzens, Treasury foe, unearthed a Senate resolution barring appointments directly from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the tax board lest the board be packed with Treasury appointees...
...Lakin letters also revealed attempts to set the Cuban stage for visiting newspaper and magazine writers lest "they fall into the wrong hands." Covert arrangements had been made to receive and influence writers for TIME and for the New York Times...
...estates in the hands of a few very wealthy men. Far more than cash does the ownership of even a few acres of land bring prestige to a Hungarian peasant. "Land hunger," greed to increase their holdings by hook or crook, is a besetting vice of the Magyar. Fear lest their acres should have to be subdivided is one reason why Hungarian landowners seldom have more than one child. Tenant farmers are notably more prolific...
...natural gas in the earth which forces the petroleum out when wells are driven. The Lyon Act stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...
...Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King and like him addicted to Biarritz, Deauville, St. Moritz. Doubtless Primo was more afraid of offending Alba, last week, than seriously perturbed lest the dilettante Duke seek executive Power...