Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word relative to the much heralded results of the United States Chamber of Commerce poll on the Federal Tax Reduction bill. Particularly the statement of Banker Pierson: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country." [TIME, Dec. 12] This statement is true but unfortunately the results of any Chamber of Commerce poll are not indicative of the opinions held by its members individually, for this reason: The local Chamber of Commerce has a membership of over thirteen hundred. Without first obtaining an expression from the individual members, six ballots were cast on the question. The reported...
...were called in. The investigators also sought evidence of the messages and money supposed to have been telegraphed from Mexico to Consul General Elias. Such evidence, to prove the validity of Hearst-published documents, was lacking. Investigation continued. Publisher Hearst's Washington Herald brazenly stated: "The least unfortunate result was bound to be suspicion and ill will between the two countries." Alert citizens, however, felt more suspicion and ill will for Publisher Hearst than for Mexico...
...need for a trial, which could have had but one result, was a thing nobody thought of. . . . The Public was invited to do with the Prisoners as they pleased. In consequence many a helpless prisoner was slashed with penknives and spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account...
Complained Harry G. Clark, a district superintendent: "We were told that if we did not reach perfection in these tests instituted by Mr. McAndrew some one else would be found to take our places. . . . The result of Mr. Andrew's ironhanded methods were found in cheating and dishonesty in the students and teachers." Others testified similarly...
...find it. His book gives evidence of much painstaking research in the manner of crabbed Sinclair Lewis. Unlike Author Lewis, Mr. Williams has used this research not to indulge in bad-humored thumpings but to speak accurately of events which occurred during the lifetime of his Henry Beeker. The result is a good novel which recalls sundry highlights of the past 40 years in a very satisfactory fashion...