Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair received back $50,000 from the G. O. P. then $50,000 more. Then Mr. Hays personally borrowed $85,000 and gave it to Sinclair, thus reimbursing him for all but his initial gift of $75,000, the amount they had agreed was fitting for him to give outright...
...rights in canceling the Mexican Petroleum Co.'s title because that company ignored the law, preferring instead to seek legal redress against a law which is regarded as confiscatory. Moreover, according to the court, the government is not within its constitutional rights in substituting 50-year leases for outright oil titles...
...University two well-known paintings now in the Museum,--a large alter-piece by Benvenuto di Giovanni, "Madonna Enthroned with Saints," and a triptych by Niccolo Da Foligno, "Madonna Enthroned between Saint Sebastin and Saint Francis." In celebration of the Norton centenary he now gives both of these pictures outright to the Fogg Museum, one in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, his teacher, the other in memory of Richard Norton, son of Professor Norton and friend of Mr. Forbes...
Since Statesmen Quezon and Osmena had not come to plead outright for independence, nor try to influence the appointment of a successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood* There was little else for him to discuss with President Coolidge, except to assure him that Major General Douglas MacArthur,* the President's recent appointee as Commanding General of the Philippines, would be welcome, and that the Philippine Legislature would soon pass on appropriations and appointments sent to it for confirmation by Acting Governor General Eugene A. Gilmore. The conversation which they had traveled 10,000 miles to seek lasted...
Senator Glass almost asked outright if the loan-reviewing function of the U. S. State Department had not been used as an illegitimate cudgel over the head of France in the current tariff controversy...