Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...
...whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called by one of his English-speaking women, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan...
...informed him via field telegraph of their rout, he instantly demanded two millions more from the terrified merchants of Chefoo, threatened to burn down their warehouses, kidnap their women, tear out their beards and worse-if they did not pay. When he had collected all he could, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World" sailed from Chefoo...
What Secretary Stimson left to Philippine officials to say was that such a sugar duty would inflame the Islands to fresh demands for independence...
...Isles, however, which leaves Canada's leadership somewhat unstable. Exports to South America showed a general increase, Argentine buying almost 10% more U. S. merchandise in 1928 than in 1927. Increases both in Argentina and Brazil, also in Mexico, resulted chiefly from U. S. autos southern bound. Low sugar prices were reflected in declining exports to Cuba...