Word: null
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Andrew William Mellon. Defending the Republicans, Senator Robinson of Indiana rose to blame Mr. Raskob for the frenzy of speculation. He called Mr. Raskob a "plunger," cited Mr. Raskob's published faith in stocks, his plans for a workers' investment trust, his null General Motors statement (TIME, Feb.11) as public inspirations to gambling, responsible for "veritably thousands of Americans plunging into the sea of specu-lation...
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...Bangor, Me., one George A. Powers sat on a jury for 33 days. Then it was discovered that he was deaf, that all verdicts reached during his service were null...
...will join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduates or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
Lastly the Queen spoke with emotion, nay indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists...