Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message came. (TIME, Dec. 17). It was characterized as "unequivocal" by most of the press. The Opposition called it reactionary. But, in the main, its reception was favorable. It came forward strongly for tax reduction, for economy; it advocated restricted immigration and, in one brief sentence, tersely gave the President's adverse opinion of a soldier bonus. It put Mr. Coolidge into a new stage of his career. At first, he was considered "safe" because he was as Mr. Harding. With this message he won confidence by his individual attitude...
Boston College should beat Marquette, their conquerors of last season. The Eagles are screaming louder than ever of the showing of Darling and his mates, and apparently not without cause. Marquette has lost the brilliant Dunn, who was the main thorn in B. C.'s side a season ago, and in other respects is hardly up to the 1923 standard The Heights eleven will have a hard battle, however and will need the breaks in order...
...team, which is going to start against Princeton, will sit on the platform tonight. Lothrop Withington '11, captain and star tackle of the 1910 team will be the main speaker. Captain M. W. Greenough '25 will follow with a short talk for the members of the team...
...closer inspection of the published lists, however, raised new questions rather than settled old ones. Men known to be very wealthy appeared in the relatively small returns, while unknown names stood opposite large assessments. Accordingly, the judgment of the financial centre on the whole episode was in the main that the returns published had borne out what it had claimed right along were gross discriminations and irregularities in the income-tax law itself. The individuals shrewd enough to have put their fortune into tax-exempt securities, or to have diverted their income into increased corporate surpluses or appreciated land values...
Several attractive smaller roads, and several not so attractive, are the lure: these include the Norfolk & Western, Central New Jersey, Reading, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Wabash and others. The railroad leaders wish to merge until only four main systems finally remain in this northeastern territory. Naturally, each big road wants to acquire the attractive small roads, and leave the poor small roads for some one else. No one apparently wants the New Haven, so that New England will be mostly left out of the effects of the merger movement. On the other hand, some of the little roads do not apparently want...