Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...break" did not come. The Treasury had to announce last week that it would pay 4½% on an issue of nine-month notes, for which the last of the Third Liberties might be exchanged. In past years, money conditions had allowed Secretary Mellon to retire some $3,900,000,000 worth of Second and Third Liberties, all bearing 4¼%, at rates ranging from 3⅞% down to 2¼%. Not since early in 1923 had he been obliged to offer...
...exaggeration and gossip on unprintable subjects which one's political opponents know is being passed around and over which they secretly gloat? Is it a parcel of prejudice circulated by the ignorant and the fanatical, which one's opponents would be powerless to arrest however fairminded they might...
...lesser personage might have been more heavily punished. Mrs. Knapp was New York's Republican Secretary of State in 1925-27. In taking the State census she padded the payroll and forged check endorsements to the amount of some $24,175.82 (TIME, June 4). Democratic Governor Smith put Republican Attorney-General Albert Ottinger in charge of the case and the latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home...
...Alphonse' ("Scarface Al") Capone; and one of Mr. Lombardo's bodyguards, Joseph Ferrara. Mr. Lombardo lay down on the sidewalk and writhed until he died. Mr. Ferrara, wounded in the back, writhed until the ambulance came. He died in a hospital without telling who the murderers might...
Undoubtedly he remembered that the U. S. might have joined the League of Nations if the matter of joining had not become a party issue...