Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notable excess," said Premier-Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, before the Chamber of Deputies, "a really notable excess of revenue over expenditures, Messieurs, has been achieved under my direction for the first time since the War. When I assembled my Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 2), we were forced to obtain credits of 930,000,000 francs [$179,490,000] from large concerns, but every centime has now been repaid and 7,500,000,000 francs [$1,447,500,000] to our credit in the Bank of France. [Applause.] I repeat, Messieurs les Deputés 'a notable excess...
...tourists the most important provision of the new bill is one that provides for 30-day permits, under which they may buy liquor and consume it in their private domiciles; a domicile may be anything from a hotel-room to a tent. Residents under the new bill may obtain individual permits, may buy any quantity of liquor which the Liquor Control Board allows...
...issuance of permits, the determination of the location, hours and sales of liquor stores, the control of breweries and distilleries and the amount of liquor each permit-holder may buy. Under the new bill, druggists may not sell liquor; physicians, dentists, veterinaries and ministers of the gospel may obtain special permits...
...their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary." James, Cardinal Gibbons, in modern times wrote: "After our Lord Jesus Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands...
Taylor Starck, Assistant Professor of German, to obtain Photostat copies of two manuscripts by Notker Labeo for the purpose of collation, and the preparation of a dictionary of the works of that author...