Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of South Carolina, after a speech by Maryland's Albert Cabell Ritchie, who was the sole Wet spokesman present, arose and thundered Bryan-esquely...
Flexibility. The present law permits the President, on recommendations by the Tariff Commission, to raise or lower tariff rates 50%. Based on the difference in the cost of producing an article abroad and in the U. S. the rate change is supposed to equalize competition...
...present seemed to feel that the best thing next to do was to adjourn the meeting after a perfunctory session which lasted just three minutes...
...last proved too much for even grizzly-bearded M. Raymond Poin-caré. He, "Lion of Lorraine," President of France during the War and for 35 months past her indomitable Prime Minister, will be on the 20th of next month 69 years old. In the course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last week imperatively tucked...
...they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present-day prosperity permits many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously described as a private bank. A private bank is really an entirely different kind of institution. It is fully supervised. It carries on a restricted, specialized...