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...demanded it in the name of "120,000,000 inarticulate American taxpayers." Said he: "The American citizenry was crucified on Good Friday, 1917 between two thieves, Gold and Greed. . . . May God bless this Congress and may we hope that by Good Friday, 1934 the Senate and the House will undo what was done...
...Evers and Sarah go back to London where she opens an antique shop and he wins a case or two. Then more troubles set in. Sinister Tono Casenove (Nils Asther) appears to blackmail Sarah. Stingy Mrs. Evers (Lorraine MacLean) refuses to give Gordon a divorce. Gossip that threatens to undo Evers' legal practice makes Sarah Casenove think that she must desert him. To top it all, Evers, with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only six more months to live. The results of surgery in If I Were Free correspond with those of gun play...
...accredited scholars for many years. They are not, nor can they ever be, available to the public. In 1924 when the Morgan Library was handed over to a group of trustees as a semi-public institution, the present head of the House of Morgan wrote: "One soiled thumb could undo the work of 900 years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster...
...constitution. Proud of the old constitution was the Administrative Council's idealistic member, onetime President Baltazar Brum, good friend of Woodrow Wilson for whom he named a Montevideo avenue. The Council put in a dignified, parliamentary protest. Meeting in an all-night session, Congress instructed President Terra to undo all he had done...
...business must be its own. Because farmers throughout the land are now marketing their wheat, no one believed the Board of Trade would actually close. Suspension of the world's largest grain market would throw the grain trade into chaos. Observers thought the Commission's order would undo much of the good political work done when President Hoover made Everett Sanders, a representative of the grain trade, chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Commission hedged by offering to rescind its penalty if the Board of Trade "receded from its position'' within 15 days. President Peter...