Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet was scheduled to meet again. It did not. President Coolidge was still considering the results of the first meeting-a typical example of the President's deliberation before speaking or acting. This should not be taken to mean, however, that the President only sat and "calculated." He saw Cabinet members individually and many other important officers. Much of his time was taken up with conferences. Much went into the President's head. Little went to the information of the public...
...stop checking off rent and supplies, from the miners' wages he did not mean putting such business on a cash basis -he meant that the miners should receive just as much credit as before, but that the operators should find other means of collecting their bills. The operators saw nothing constructive in these suggestions, and the conference broke up. It took two days to reach this misunderstanding. Thereupon the Coal Commission called in John L. Lewis for the miners and Samuel D. Warriner for the operators, " urging" them to go into a joint conference with their associates and report...
Three weeks ago the baccarat syndicate, composed of two wealthy Greeks and an Armenian?Gregory Vagliano, Sographos and Condgmed-jian?lost 2,500,000 francs ($137,750.00); two weeks ago they lost 6,000,000 francs ($330,600.00); last week saw the coup de grĀce with a loss of 10,000,000 francs ($551,000.00) ; the bank was broken and the E Deauville Casino, for the first time in history, is in darkness at the height of the season. Lost ? 18,500,000 francs; produced?nothing...
...first quarter of the present year saw 5,666 French couples divorced and 70,656 couples married. The ratio of divorces to marriages is one to twelve...
...first time I ever saw Alexander Woollcott was in Heywood Broun's Paris studio, on New Year's Eve, 1918. He was then a private in the United States Medical Corps, and his O. D.'s made him look more like Bairnsfather than Dickens...