Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
...than it is for men. Canada and the U. S. are traditionally amicable neighbors, but this does not spare them from having back-fence arguments. Last week the problems between the two countries had accumulated to an extent that might well have shaken the amity of two less level-minded neighbors...
...effort to provide, also, food for thought, he harked to the day when he put sterling back on gold. "Because of that policy," he declared, "there has been a decline of 18 points (%) in the cost of living . ... while wages are almost at the 1924 level. . . . This means an increase in the purchasing power of our wages equivalent to the remission of ?161,000,000 ($780,850,000) annually in indirect taxation." Though such a statement is all very well for electioneering purposes it completely ignores the fact that thousands of British workmen lost their jobs when British exports...
...notified Secretary of State Kellogg that Mrs. Gann was his hostess and that, as such, she should have the full rank of the Vice President's lady in the complex social scheme of official Washington. Secretary Kellogg had ruled that Mrs. Gann could not rate on the level of the Vice President but below the wives of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Secretary of State, and all foreign Ambassadors and Ministers...
...without wanting to, draws the youth back into the shadows of mediocrity. There are other excellent performances by Edward Pawley, Dudley Digges, Elizabeth Patterson and Armina Marshall. Mr. Digges also is to be credited with the direction. The production is flush with the Theatre Guild's usual high level...