Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally Congressmen and Senators were aroused at the prospect of loss of patronage. The ineluctable hand of politics last week reached into the Treasury Department and seized a concession. It was officially announced that Senators would have the opportunity of consulting with General Andrews before he chose his men, and that if any Senator objected to the appointment of a man in his district, his veto should be absolute...
...their ports,but that if the system worked, and consent were obtained, it would be extended to other countries. They maintained that the new way was established for the convenience of the immigrants, to save them hardships. They suggested that Mr. Curran was critical because he disliked the prospect of the importance of his post's being reduced...
...woman was so rare as to be sung by poets and the reek of stale sweat was barely stifled by a strong perfume? John Donne wrote verses to the flea he saw nestling in his lady's bosom. There is scarcely a fine gentleman today who could face the prospect of making love to one of the fine ladies of the past six or seven hundred years in Europe. ... I do not believe in the theory that the rougher our physique the more intense our bodily delights...
...seldom in the past 50 years that the people of this country have been confronted by the prospect of widespread industrial strife. But never, so far as I can judge, has the danger been so grave and so urgent as today. The wisest thinkers warn us that at this moment there is an almost unparalleled crisis in our national life...
Even under the reduced income and surtax rates of 1924, a taxable bond would have to yield 8.33% to net an investor with $500,000 or more income as much as a 4½% tax-exempt bond. Nevertheless, the prospect of tax reductions in the near future has apparently dulled the edge of the investor's appetite for tax-exempt bonds, for sales during the first half of 1925 were less than for the same period...