Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape their dilemma the committee members passed the matter entirely to National Chairman William Morgan Butler, in whose quietly determined mind the decision probably rested anyway. Mr. Butler chose, and the committee unanimously elected, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio...
Having added up March tax payments, scrutinized Congress' appropriations to date, and talked the matter over with President Coolidge, Secretary Mellon last week went before the Senate Finance Committee to announce what he thought should be done with the Tax Bill. The Bill which the Committee had received before Christmas from the House provided a tax reduction of $289,000,000 or 64 millions more than Secretary Mellon recommended last autumn...
...measure calculated to save them some $13,585,000 per annum in postage stamps. It was the long-awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided for a lowering of postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much for placing orders as for "dropping a line," the rate was cut in half, back...
...these flighty, inconsequential doings Excommunicator Cardinal Dubois brooded with troubled dignity last week. He is a prelate in high favor with the rich Anglo-U. S. Catholics of Paris, and he won the general gratitude of Frenchmen during the War by tireless organizing of efficient charities. As a matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...weeks," boasts Black Ulysses. "Leastwise, never mo' 'n five. . . . Sometimes I knows where I wants to go, an' sometimes I jes' git on to go anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song...