Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surplus now composes a round total of approximately $600,000 although this figure will be cut somewhat by the expenditure of $166,000 for the steel construction of the second floor of the gymnasium authorized by the Corporation after an eleventh hour decision last spring...
...campaigner is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. His great campaign (1924-25) as Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town...
Tokyo. Japan's Naval Minister, suave Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, told correspondents in Tokyo with polite circumlocution that he considered the Anglo-U. S. figures for achieving parity somewhat too high. The policy of the Imperial Government at the Five Power Conference, he said, would be to urge slightly lower fleet tonnages for all concerned in all categories. Japan will ask to be allowed to maintain a cruiser fleet 70% as strong as that of either Britain or the U. S., will demand absolute parity with the major powers in submarines. Today under the famed 5-5-3 ratio...
...particularly irate objector was Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York Telegram. Wrote he : "I have a grave suspicion that the Rev. William S. Blackshear has somewhat mistaken his job and function. Seemingly he has begun to assume that he is chairman of the Com mittee on Admissions and that the Lord's house which he tends is one of the better country clubs. . . . There is no record that Jesus Christ ever said, 'Love thy Nordic neighbor as thyself,' or 'Suffer little Caucasian children to come unto...
Prime absorber of funds were the various security and financial corporations somewhat loosely classed as investment trusts. These companies accounted for no less than $1,494,093,000-or somewhat more than one third of the entire total. Next came public utilities, which got along on $777,191,000. Low on the list were Coal and Construction, high were Aviation and Oil. Ten leaders in new financing were...