Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World peace was again President Hoover's text in a speech to the Daughters of the American Revolution, in which he again urged U. S. entry into the World Court under the Root formula. As if to offset the victory of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois earlier in the week as a World Court opponent, President Hoover declared: " I have no doubt that the U. S. will become a member of the Court. ... It is easy to preach ... peace. It is easier still to engage in invective or vindictive phrase or slogan which stir national selfishness and self...
According to Admiral Magruder and the Navy's Bureau of Navigation these maneuvers proved the "high vulnerability" of the carrier at the hands of an attacking squadron, which was offset by "the tremendous advantage in a main action by that side which had command...
Wall Street's tribulations affected the sale of Fine Art only in December. This decline was offset, however, by heavy buying earlier in the year. Total business was reported to have exceeded that of any year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...
...School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
Girls are paid by the day, 80 sen (40¢) to start, and work on eight-hour shifts with 20-minute rests about every two hours, and 20 minutes for lunch. Small pay is offset by privileges, such as the right to free courses of study at company schools, an especially popular course being "The Arrangement of Flowers in Pots, Bowls and Vases...