Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PHIL STONG Keosauqua, Iowa P. S. Nevertheless, don't stop my subscription...
...only natural that he should feel some sympathy with another, more famed Hannibal parent, "Pap" Finn, to whom it seemed downright unreasonable that Huckleberry should be sent to school, sleep in a bed and nightshirt like a "sweet-scented dandy" instead of cooking for "Pap" and running his errands. Nevertheless, ruled the National Compliance Board: "Child labor will not be tolerated regardless of relationship...
...correct certain obvious abuses. We must be certain that abuses are eliminated, and to this end a broad policy of national regulation is required. ... It is my belief that exchanges for dealing in securities and commodities are necessary and of definite value to our commercial and economic life. Nevertheless, it should be our national policy to restrict, as far as possible, the use of these exchanges for purely speculative purposes...
...great eyewitness reporter, Duranty nevertheless has his purple passages. Thus he describes Moscow's homeless children (1925) : "For the past three years one of their chief strongholds has been the 'Catacombs,' as Moscow calls an acre-wide range of cellars under an enormous unfinished pre-War building right in the center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole...
...displays a combination of charming romanticism and business acumen common to the movies but strangely rare in real life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success a financial coup d'etat in the tobacco business...