Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essense of amiability as he kept business shuttling over his desk in anticipation of the pleasurable moment when the cup would touch his lips, when the first session of his second Congress would pass into history, having given him virtually everything he asked, denied him nothing important save the World Court...
...gillie, hospitalized, received surgical attention which seemed certain to save his sight. Nonetheless the bare possibility that His Grace the Duke of York might have shot and blinded one of the King's subjects was deemed a mishap so catastrophic as to warrant public concealment...
Harvard is having a new deal in athletics in an endeavor to save money and it has been necessary to place part of the sports on an informal basis. At present polo, rugby, yachting, skiing, rifle, and golf are in this position which means that they are provided with university facilities as much as possible and the H. A. A. contributes a small sum for coaching expense, but the burden of equipment and transportation falls upon the shoulders of the participants
...appease the silver bloc, Finance Chairman Harrison had accepted Senator McCarran's amendment turning silver back to the speculators (see p. 13). To save time he had promised to "take along to conference" a swarm of other, minor amendments. By 40 to 39 the Senate had approved Senator Borah's amendment lifting tax exemption from future issues of Federal securities. Otherwise the Finance Committee's bill had been passed intact. Bob La Follette's politically preposterous notion that the bill should be turned into a respectable revenue raiser by taxing the "little fellow" had been shrugged...
Since Messrs. Noah and Warner moved into American Woolen, management costs have been cut $5,000,000, unprofitable plants sold, bonds and preferred stock retired, plant values written down to save taxes. But they are taking no chances with disgruntled stockholders. Last week it was disclosed that they had voluntarily abandoned their bonus scheme...