Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entitled to equal consideration with Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado or any other State. Delegates from Honolulu are forever pointing out that Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption on the mainland. This action Congressman Maury Maverick compared to declaring that "cotton...
...with the Court fight, was Broker Robert R. Young of Manhattan. Most sensational development of the week was that 40 year-old Broker Young, who with his partners Kirby and Kolbe acquired control of the huge Van Sweringen railroad empire by buying a majority in Alleghany Corp. for a mere $6,000,000, had less shrewdly spent $15,000 for 60 campaign books which he had then "scattered all over Texas and Oklahoma among my friends and relatives." Said unhappy Broker Young, whose presence in Washington had forced his wife to curtail plans for a huge dinner dance in their...
...guarantor. It is not the lord, but the servant, of justice." The conference sent a message of sympathy to the German Evangelical Church, whose delegates had been denied passports to attend. This caused the only dissension of the fortnight at Oxford. A German Methodist and a Baptist, representing a mere 200,000 of Germany's 40,000,000 Protestants, jittered that such condolences could only make things worse in Germany...
...tightly-knit Social Democrat Party which led the opposition to President Cárdenas. Thundered Social Democrat Leader Judge Prieto Laurens: "The official party as usual used every means to assure its triumph. . . . A majority of the voting booths were placed in homes of Government party leaders and a mere 10% of the eligible voters was allowed to ballot...
...intelligent German girl who marries a Silbury business man. When the Canon meets her he turns pale and mutters that she reminds him of someone. The reminder is of a German peasant girl whom he deserted 25 years back when he was offered a canonry. Since that time the mere mention of Germany has been enough to make him go to pieces. But it has never occurred to him that a child might turn up. Servants get hold of the first clues. With these and Silburians' devious skill in putting two & two together-the Canon's increasing nervousness...