Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times...
...statements in this quotation are 100% erroneous. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey is not a subsidiary of the United Gas Improvement Company. It is true that the latter company has been for many years a substantial minority stockholders of Public Service-its proportion of voting strength at the present time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director...
...Debated the Tariff Bill; adopted (47 to 42) the Simmons Amendment repealing the flexible tariff provision: adopted provisions to convert present ad valorem rates to equivalent percentages on the basis of "domestic value...
...purpose of his resolution: "To expose the fortunetellers and astrologers* who maintain associations here at the expense of gullible men and women back in the States." He also hoped to disclose "who it is that finances the Southern Tariff Association, the Muscle Shoals lobby, the Estates Tax lobby, the present Tariff lobby, Mr. Joseph R. Grundy...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...