Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided to reverse their strategy of last Spring limiting tariff fighting only to the Farm Lowlands. They consented to give the regular Republicans battle all along the tariff line, with a view to beating down with their rifle butts all industrial rates that dared pop their heads above the present trench level...
...Irish Theatre, [nc., whose roster includes Scans, Culinans, MacGuffins, Ennises, Miceals, Patricks, Liams and Unas, whose sponsors include Llewellyn Powys, Donn Byrne's widow and Otto Hermann Kahn, have taken over the tiny but gallant Greenwich Village Theatre where for their first production of the season they present a haunting, chaotic play by famed Sean 0'Casey of Dublin, author of Juno and the Paycock (TIME, March 29, 1926). Through its symbolism and its brogue you discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist. He then...
Crowds massed at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier on the day the engagement was officially proclaimed last week. It was 9:30 in the morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
...trust laws was promised by Attorney General Mitchell. Changes in business conditions resulting in mergers, new methods of marketing, vertical trusts and chain stores have become so thick and fast as to be confusing to those dealing with anti-trust laws. But the Attorney-General believes the principles of present statutes will be intelligently applied by the courts. Prosperity and expansion, he thought, have increased anti-trust transgressions. Important and beneficial is the promised policy of the Department of Justice regarding questions submitted on proposed mergers and business transactions. No longer will the Department's views be in cautious...
Also among the 4,000 present were good-golfing U. S. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, Wilson-praising Newton Diehl Baker, unpolitical Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, law-enforcing George Woodward Wickersham, Dean William Draper Lewis of the Pennsylvania Law School, Mexican-born Severe Mallet-Pre-vost, Emory Roy Buckner, Charles Seymour Whitman, George Wharton Pepper...