Word: presenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considering the present petition, the Council defended the policy of not insisting on too arbitrary and artificial standards for admission, although it admitted "that such attempts as those of the petitioners to clarify the requirements for getting into a House are valuable...
...that, according to the estimates of Dr. Arthur Hunter (that every drink costs the moderate drinker 25 minutes of life), there has been a grave error in that his birth should not have been recorded before Jan. 19, 1954. In other words, he is at the present time minus 14 years and 7 months old, and steadily going backward...
Solution: Leave things alone. "At $80,000,000,000 [national income] the income from the present taxes will be sufficient to meet expenditures on the present scale-and actually to reduce our relief appropriations...
...allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that one Congressman privately asked the Air Corps' Major General Henry Arnold, who was present, whether the witness was holding...
...completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present a united front to the world in general and to aggressors in particular. The idea was that where the voice of one small nation might not carry far, the voice of four would...