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There is no more esteemed confection in the Executive Department of the Government than the word economy. It rolls with a quiver of delight on the tongue of the President. It rolls and rolls again on the tongue of the Director of the Budget. The Cabinet munch it at their meetings. Only last week, Secretary Hoover offered the dainty morsel again for the President's tasting in the annual report of the Department of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Report | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...Munch, Danish delegate to the League, in announcing this step, merely avowed that armaments are useless to small nations, for they are allowed to use them only as the pawns of great powers. He argued that disputes between small nations must henceforth be settled by round table discussions or by arbitration between the backers of the midget countries. If not, their Lilliputian quarrels will again serve as pretexts for gigantic struggles whose real sources lie deep in the persistent rivalries of the great powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TERRIBLE DANE | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...yard hurdles.--Won by Jackson (H.); second, Munch (T.); third, Fox (T.). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1914 Track Team Lost, 71 to 46. | 5/8/1911 | See Source »

...last few months, all this has been changed, and a new order of things prevails. An order of things under which waiters are kept in line from twenty to forty-five minutes while some mysterious cook below stairs fills the orders. Meanwhile at the tables men sit and munch bread, or losing all patience, adjourn to the Holly Tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1886 | See Source »

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