Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...export corporation to buy farm produce, principally wheat. It is to buy as much as will bring the price of wheat up to a position in proportion to other prices, such as it held before the War. Tariff rates are to be raised sufficiently to prevent inflow of foreign wheat. The wheat which the corporation buys is to be paid for partly in cash, partly in receipts. These receipts will have value in as much as the corporation succeeds in selling its wheat abroad at a profit...
...would need only 550 votes?about 150 more than he now has. If Mr. McAdoo is to be nominated, such a change would make the matter simpler. On the other hand, if Mr. McAdoo is not to be nominated, the change would make it less easy for him to prevent the nomination of an opposing candidate, such as Mr. Brennan may favor. If either side secures a change to a majority rule, it will prove to be a two-edged sword that must be handled with care. So when Mr. Brennan challenged the McAdoo men to come...
...there is bound to be trouble when the conference report is submitted to the Senate. Meanwhile the two provisions had engendered extra legislative controversy. It was objected to the graduated tax on undistributed profits that it would penalize corporate thrift, place young and growing corporations at a disadvantage, and prevent the proceeds of a fat year from being conserved for the inevitable lean year to follow. The fight over the publicity provision was even more bitter. Senator Norris, Republican insurgent declared : "I can see no reason why income tax returns should not be made public the same as other public...
...subject on the minds of us all. It is futile for me to speak without dealing with it. It is the Immigration Bill. . . . The Immigration Bill is not what you want and not what I want. I know that your Government has done all that it properly could to prevent this situation. You know what President Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes have done on our side to prevent the same...
Unlike most other universities, Harvard has few traditions; aside from the Reinhardt legend, the wearing of old hats, and Professor Copeland, the university's stock of folk-lore is extremely limited--except, of course, for the studied cultivation of Indifference. This apparent barrenness of background, however, does not prevent a certain sympathy for other universities in their occasional bereavements...