Word: refering
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...Should our protest go unheeded, we request that you refer to these catastrophes in the Thanksgiving Proclamation. Your action in this matter will be a sufficient reply to our request...
Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps...
...doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there can be no real peace...
When his turn came, Mr. Churchill began : "In expressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too nattering terms in which they refer...
After Mr. Churchill had finished and sat down, a scratchy, Churchillesque voice began to speak from somewhere: "In ex pressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too flattering terms in which they refer to me . . ." Mr. Churchill flushed, grinned, heard his own speech -which had been sound-recorded without his knowledge...