Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediate program. "Up to the end of March we shall have to ask the House to give up most of its time to financial business-that we have inherited from our predecessors-for supplementary estimates in the main. We shall place before the House those resolutions carried at the imperial and economic conference...
...from the time Britain can be said to have had a defined foreign policy up to the end of the Great War. On the period anterior to 1783 Sir Adolphus Ward, Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, has written a long introduction in which he has skilfully outlined the main considerations and salient characteristics of those early days. The work as a whole can, therefore, lay serious claim to being a complete review of the whole of British foreign policy...
Money remains easy, although the bankers continue rates which are high in proportion to market conditions. The main justification for this policy is of course the fear of inflation. Nevertheless, declining earning assets of certain Federal Reserve banks may be a contributory cause. The expectation of a lowered rediscount rate is general; it is felt that this move is after all the "ace-in-the-hole" of the party which has undertaken to make this Presidential year one of prosperity and confidence. Much "bull ammunition" has already been shot off, such as U. S. Steel's extra dividends...
...plot was laid in Sandusky, Ohio. Whether the Simmon's home was situated on Main Street or not was left to the reader's imagination. Probably not, because most of the characters were attractive. But the street certainly ran parallel to Main Street, and there was a distinctly small-town background, out of which the title of the play was taken...
Major Moore had, however, one suggestion to make: "Harvard might choose the umpires for the Yale-Princeton series, Yale for the Harvard-Princeton, and Princeton for the Harvard-Yale. Our main object is to get competent officials. We don't care much who picks them...