Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beck arose. His points: 1) The section of the 1924 revenue law which opens tax returns to public inspection does not conflict with Section 3167 of the Revised Statutes which forbids the publication of the returns. For a newspaperman to discover a fact is one thing, to print and publish it quite another; 2) Congress intended that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue should have control over the tax lists, and he had not authorized their publication in newspapers...
...remains of General Gheorghieff. In a long, solemn queue, the funeral procession, headed by the Cabinet, trailed slowly, mournfully through the grimy Sofia streets and at length drew near to the Cathedral. There was a blinding flash, a terrific roar and the entire south wall and a large section of the roof of the Cathedral crumbled and crashed to the ground; many surrounding buildings were ruined, windows for yards around splintered. The crowd stood still for one ghastly second, then fled pellmell. Amid cries of the wounded and dying the military threw a cordon around the stricken area, filled with...
...Emphatically the President had nothing to say against the Saghalin section of the Russo-Japanese treaty...
...example would be made of the Maharaja and that he would be dethroned (as was his father, in 1903, by Lord Curzon) in favor of his 14-year-old son. The difficulties in the way of doing this are enormous. On the one hand, there is a large section of Hindu opinion to be reckoned with; and on the other, the Hindus and all India have again to be reminded that British justice takes into account nautch girls and low-caste merchants. Undoubtedly, the Maharaja must go. Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Lord Reading) was born in London a little more than...
...Telephone and Telegraph Company, and director of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1916 he was director of the Committee on Industrial Preparedness of the Naval Consulting Board from 1916 to 1918 a member of the Council of National Defense, and in 1918, secretary of the American Section of the Interallied Munitions Council in Paris...