Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last spring Elihu Root, grey Elder Statesman of U. S. diplomacy, good friend of Herbert Hoover, went to Geneva?quite unofficially?and began with foreign diplomats to draw up another set of reservations which would suit both them and the U.S. Last week more than 40 nations had approved the Root formula (see p. 26). So Henry Lewis Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, announced that he had "carefully examined" the new reservations and "satisfied" himself that they would protect...
...crux of the matter is that the law requires tourists to declare "the full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value?the price they paid?and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...
...that his newspaper was not on the pure list. It was receiving "pay" from railroads. It was receiving money from political parties for candidacy support. But this bothered Editor Older not at all. Graft was running the railroads, governing Labor, electing city officials. Fearless, ambitious, fight-loving, Editor Older set out to purify San Francisco. His great and good friend Rudolph Spreckels, sugar tycoon, agreed to help him. They found lined up against them potent local powers. Patrick Calhoun, hardheaded, two-fisted president of United Railroads; Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, tall, handsome, the people's idol; Abraham Ruef, a Hebrew...
Several airplane sales agencies conduct schools, taxi services or hops: U. S. Air Lines, Dungan Airways, Cleveland Institute of Aviation, Skyways, Stewart Aircraft Corp., Floyd J. Logan Aviation Co., Curtiss Flying Service (now being set...
...newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of Culion citizens, called "world's kindest audience," to the canned cargo. But once a year when the films, paid for by organized charity, arrive, the Culionites sing, set off fireworks...