Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The House had brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert...
Ad Valorem. The valuation of imports under the new bill cropped up as a controversial problem. There are two bases of valuation, foreign and U. S. By and large the new bill retains foreign valuation, i. e., the value the foreign producer sets upon his article, or the price for...
"Mr. Sinclair, I've taken a lot of bets on your horses and I've made a lot more on my own, and I've always wanted to meet you, but I'm sorry it had to be in jail."
After the Civil War, several Negroes were elected from Southern States to take seats in the House of Representatives. Soon those Negroes nominated youths of their own race for the U. S. service academies at Annapolis and West Point. In 1873 two young Negroes passed the Annapolis entrance examinations and...
The great increase in the size of the University has not been allowed to bring with it the standardization of production which has so often accompanied rapid development in the United States. The three hundred year old liberal tradition of which Harvard is so justly proud, has never been more...