Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While many a U. S. maid and matron dived beneath tea tables, shrieked, the embattled Deputies potshot at each other from opposite sidewalks. Onetime Governor Garillo of the state of Tabasco fell at once, mortally wounded in the face. Col. Andres Garcia was killed outright. Others were wounded...
...spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...
...second race of a second series. In 1913, with a third consecutive victory, Belgium won outright the trophy established in that year in memory of Publisher James Gordon (New York Herald) Bennett (1794-1872) by his son, J. G. B. Jr. Magnanimous, Belgium then redonated the trophy...
Last week the onslaught on the tariff law began. Senator Capper (Republican) declared outright that it must be modified to benefit the farmer. Senator Wheeler, Representative Rainey, ex-Senator Walsh of Massachusetts (Democrats) joined the fray for lower tariffs. And in its midst complaints against the tariff law per se were made by others. Dr. F. W. Taussig of Harvard, the first Chairman of the Tariff Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present...
...told that the Federation (composed of 31,261 unions) as of Aug. 31 had 2,878,297 members not counting some 500,000 unemployed or out on strike and not paying dues. He assailed "employes' representation," "employes' ownership" and "employes' insurance' as schemes of employers more insidious than outright attack in undermining the unions. He warned Labor of Communistic organizations masquerading as part of the bona fide trade union movement?such organizations as the International Defense Council, the American Negro Congress, the Irish Workers' and Peasants' Famine Relief Committee, the International Workers' Aid, the Workers' Party, the Trade Union Educational...