Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special Session. Further agricultural relief and limited changes in the tariff cannot in justice to our farmers, our labor and our manufacturers be postponed. I shall therefore request a special session of Congress...
Hoover. Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, with the Secretaries of State and Labor, constituted a special commission to report the scientists' findings. This report said: "Although this is the best information we have been able to secure, we wish to. . .state that in our opinion the statistical and historical information available raises grave doubts as to the whole value of these computations...
...money, said Cardinal Dubois, was a gift from the French clergy. They had derived it from the special contributions known as "Peter's Pence." What may be called the underlying theory of "Peter's Pence" has been that these donations would supplant the income lost by the Pope in 1870, when the Papal lands and corresponding revenues were seized by the Italian State. Today, however, the State has promised, in the newly signed Italo-Papal treaty & concordat (TIME, Feb. 18), to indemnify the Holy See for its losses of 1870 by a cash payment...
...special train had been provided, and so potent is the name of TROTSKY still, in Russia, that at his mere request another special train chuffed down from Moscow to meet the first, bearing two of his relatives for a family reunion. All along Comrade Trotsky had told the dictator's agents that he "refused"' to leave Russia at Stalin's "illegal" order, and seemingly the agents were so perturbed by this that they stopped the Trotsky special train for 12 days amid open fields to query Moscow for further orders. Every day the engine would chuff...