Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind of an offer to me. You evidently don't know me. It begins to look like I've lost my fortune that I've striven for for 35 years. My office is threatened, it looks as if they are threatening my liberty, but I'm not going to lose my self respect...
State could show that Governor Jackson had also conspired to conceal the bribery. This, the State failed to prove. Special Judge Charles M. McCabe ordered the acquittal of Governor Jackson...
...tariff schedule of 1,200 items was announced by its drafter, M. Daniel Ser-ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those on many foodstuffs, and abolishes the duty on U. S. wheat seed, now popular in France. Sugar, from the U. S., which France has not heretofore imported, should flow in if the bill becomes law, for it would reduce the duty on sugar from 290 francs per 100 kilos to 100 francs...
...Sneered M. le General Jean Stuhl during the debate: "I have still a vivid memory of the deplorable impression created among the poilus by the fact that too few Parliamentarians performed their military duty during...
...Cried M. le Colonel Prosper Josse: "Clemenceau was the only legislator I saw during the entire War who came within five metres of the Germans...