Word: seeings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation. (see...
...fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for the benefit of the new Soviet Ambassador, expected soon in London (see above...
...motors. Self-conscious reporters in swallowtail coats noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...
...When the fox goes to ground, "do not ride up to the earth and try to look into it. There is nothing to see, only a hole. If you insist on making yourself useful, ask the huntsman if you may hold his horse...
When, 28 years ago, Simon I. Patiño was a bill collector for a Bolivian general store, he accepted from a debtor certain mountain lands instead of $250. The store discharged him after making him pay $250 in cash. Impoverished, he went to see the land, dug, discovered tin. Today he heads the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, is one of the world's richest men, with a personal income exceeding that of the Bolivian Government. Although as Ambassador to France Patiño divides his time between Paris and his Biarritz castle, he is still...