Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decreases of the tariff not to exceed 50% of the present law- which changes the President then may put into effect by proclamation. So far, few recommendations have been made, and practically all of them called for increases of the tariff. This situation, of course, has provoked criticism from low-tariff advocates. Recently The Sun (Baltimore) suggested editorially that the Commission be abolished. This proposal provoked a letter from one of the Commissioners, Alfred P. Dennis, telling the Commission's side of the story...
...including reduction of surtaxes, and Congressmen were holding back warily. As the time for the convening of another Congress draws near, the situation is very nearly reversed. Congressmen are calling for a tax cut-a cut of as much as half a billion dollars, reduction of surtaxes to as low as 10%, and the Treasury is holding back, fearing that if it gives Congressmen their way it may not be able to balance its books next year. It is crying to overeager Congressmen (in everything but slang) : "Hold your horses...
...Brooklyn, one Wong Low, Chinese laundryman, was harassed by a gang of rowdy youths who threw stones into his windows, pounded on his doors when he slept, tossed garbage upon the linen he had just laundered. One day last week they began their activities by nonchalantly stoning him through the open door as he bent his wet yellow face over an ironing board. One of the missiles struck the board. Wong Low screamed; the youths jeered. Chattering Chinese imprecations, Low drew a revolver from his blouse, began to shoot. The boys scattered, but one James Courte, aged 22, dodged into...
Since consumption cannot be increased, production must be curtailed. This may be done voluntarily under the economic spur of large stocks and low prices, or involuntarily in case Nature blights the 1926 grape crop. But Nature, fickle jade, prefers to cherish grapes that are not needed, and bedevil cotton and wheat that are badly wanted, both here and abroad...
...which she obviously intended to take the set. But ho! Miss Ryan led the national champion up to the net with short chops, trapped her with deep chops to the baseline, won the set, 6-3. In the next set, she again carried the attack to Miss Wills. Her low, back-bouncing chops on the wet court made the champion scoop up returns as if with a trowel, kept her lumbering from baseline to net until she was breathless. Miss Ryan chopped right, chopped left, chopped off Miss Wills' head...