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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every U. S. citizen's income tax. For the enemies of Prohibition had occasion to demonstrate that adequate enforcement would cost a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) a year. And the friends and promoters of Prohibition had every reason to assure each other that?cost what it might ?Congress would vote all monies needed for this cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Money No Object | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Theoretically, the Saratoga might have been sunk before its planes returned, when at last it fell under the guns of the searching Blues, but the damage would have been done; the Canal was "destroyed;" the supporting fleet must have circled the Horn to have reached the Pa cific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Canal Destroyed | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA,BULGARIA: Black Farinacci | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Termed dilatory by President Coolidge (see p. 9), the Interstate Commerce Commission last week roused itself, took action, decided that the New York Central R. R. might legally acquire the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Michigan Central railroads, and subsidiary lines of the two. Merger permission was conditional upon purchase by the New York Central of six short-line roads in the affected area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: N. Y. C. Merger | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...that Paul Mallon had secured his scoop. Such a one as the boyish Nye who is regular at election time and irregular in between would be glad to have the country know that he, in contradistinction to the majority, is nobly bottling "the interests." But any of the Progressives might have done it and Pressman Mallon is specially good-friends with Progressives McNary, Norris, Wheeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Secret Case of Mr. West | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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