Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arms for the Head. Before his roistering House, Speaker Byrns would be completely at a loss without two arms that help to uphold the Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
...other way that I know of, short of giving our cotton away through ruinous prices or insecure loans, to regain our former volume of cotton exports. . . . I think it is clear that proposals for increasing exports through low prices would not compensate the cotton growing industry for the loss of income that would result to them from discarding or transforming the present program...
...insurance policies whom insurance companies wanted to keep alive as long as possible. Insurance companies paid for these examinations by the Life Extension Institute in precisely the same manner that private doctors are paid for making examinations of applicants for insurance. This seemed to private doctors a potential loss of fees amounting to some three or four million dollars...
...give men summary and unsatisfactory treatment. If a serious condition develops the man may be kept out of his sport for several weeks and may diminish gate receipts. Two more important considerations are the unfairness to the men themselves and to the coaches and teams who suffer from the loss of players...
...Whatever loss of efficiency France and Russia may suffer in timed of crisis by appealing to the League, it is worth the risk. Under the forthcoming treaty, the League is given the opportunity of trying to avert the war. If it fails, the military staffs are immediately free to plunge at each other's throat. Once again solicitous France has injected adrenalin into the bloodstream of the League with apparent success...