Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reasons making the Antofagasta stop worthwhile for all concerned: 1) More U. S. capital is invested in Bolivia (tin, oil) than in any other S. A. country; 2) the U. S. holds all Bolivia's external debt bonds. 3) the Tacna-Arica dispute might be settled some day by letting Bolivia buy back her road-to-the-sea, as suggested by Secretary Kellogg...
Last summer, not a little political capital was made-by Republicans as a warning against change, by Democrats as evidence of bad stewardship-out of a report from the Budget Bureau that fiscal 1929 might show a deficit of 94 millions. President Coolidge now announced that the outlook was for a surplus of some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues...
...signature or decision were piling up, His Majesty expressed a desire to convoke the Privy Council and appoint a regency pro tempore. Cautiously the Royal physicians sought to divert the sick man from this purpose, fearing that the excitement and pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson-Hicks took...
...articles for her paper by some of the leading journalists of Europe. Recently U. S. papers widely reprinted from La Gazette an elaborate exposé of a Communist plan to seize Paris. So craftily thickened was La Gazette's plot that but for a rival newspaper the swindle might have kept booming for months...
...thoughtful, too. One rather chilly day as I came to the executive palace to work on his portrait I was pleasantly surprised to find the room heated. His servant then said to me, 'Oh, that was done at the President's personal order. He thought you might find it disagreeable to work in a cold room...