Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they skip the terminals and are expedited in the railway mail cars...
...never was. Granted that Booth once trod those boards and that the Stupidities of 1927 now makes merry in the hallowed footsteps, the discerning must remember that such is not only a local condition. Other cities, Detroit for one, which are larger than Boston receive worse treatment from the nimble hands of the booking agent. And one worthy, if sporadic, stock company, a Repertory Company-- which is only a rose by any other name--and some in different permanent groups are always lurking in the background...
Scrimmage and more scrimmage has been the treatment prescribed by Head Coach Arnold Horween '21 for his gridiron charges during the last two days. Despite the fact that they have been in uniform little more than a week the red jerseyed athletes have already encountered the Black Shirts in two long scrimmage sessions...
...placid, warm afternoon, but the farmers and press correspondents (who were sitting just below the speakers' stand) listened carefully. Said Senator Reed: "Some of you farmers think agriculture is sick. Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, however, assured us the entire country is prosperous. If this species of absent treatment were effective, everybody would be happy." Senator Reed began to talk about the Federal Reserve Act; said he: "The credit for this great banking system must be given largely to Senator Glass and to Woodrow Wilson. ... I did some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised...
France-German Treaty. The commercial accord signed recently with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29) was an- other fly in U. S. Parisians' ointment. In it Germany was accorded most-favored national treatment in regard to all but specified products, which means that she enjoys the minimum tariff rates accorded to countries having this class of treaty. All countries outside this category must pay duty in conformity with the new law. U. S. businessmen, petulant, were in-clined to see deliberate discrimination in the new tariff against them in favor of the Reich...