Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladders with hose in hand, the crowd pressed close upon the building in their enthusiasm, with the result that many overzealous individuals were completely routed when a torrent of water, unleashed from the hose, escaped from a broken window. In another instance, the firemen, taunted with concerted chants of "Let it burn!" and "Damn the firemen", turned the hose and swept the crowd, somewhat dampening the ardor of the surging ranks...
When Calvin Coolidge, then U. S. President, pushed aside Senate bill No. 3185 of the 69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...
What Mr. Mellon's purpose was in this (for him) extraordinary remark, remained a mystery. Perhaps he wanted to let Senators McKellar, Couzens et al. know, in a delicate way, that the Secretary of the Treasury was still quite sure of himself. Or, perhaps again, he wanted to bolster the Federal Reserve Board's campaign against stock speculation loans. Or, perhaps a third time, there was a connection between the statement and the condition of U. S. Government bonds. The Treasury's quarterly financing of March 15 had been barely oversubscribed despite an interest rate...
...troubled by the prospect of a deficit next June 30. He could see only the "narrowest margin between revenue and expenditures." An air of anxiety, if not gloom, was thus cast over the Treasury-in voters' minds. The conservative conclusion could only be: If a deficit threatens, let us not change horses, i.e., political party control, in midstream. The President's announcement was also used as a fiscal hackamore to make Congress stand hitched...
...South whites did not let Negroes handicap them in this curious competition. Both races committed practically the same number of murders. In ten Southern cities there were last year 731 killings, an average rate of 38.6 murders per 100,000. In the country's six largest communities the number was twice as great (1,513), the rate one-fourth as high...