Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President was "not very happy." He was convinced that the pending bill was a Treasury raid embracing "every proposal, like the creek that happens to be out of doors when it rains." A veto loomed unless the House Flood Control Committee could be persuaded to restrain its generosity to the $400,000,000 or so total cost which the Administration thinks is all the U. S. Treasury can stand...
...lies bloody Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
...Lawyer Littleton said that Sinclair was in no wise connected with the Continental Trading Co., a mysterious, short-lived oil-trading company out of whose profits, transformed into Liberty Bonds, the G. O. P. is now known to have received $160,000 from Sinclair for its Harding campaign deficit. Unless Lawyer Littleton lied to the jury, which Inquisitor Walsh felt was unthinkable, Sinclair must have lied to his lawyer...
...Unless Prosecutor Taft succeeds in appealing the case, Killer Remus will go scot-free to dedicate the rest of his life, he says, "to stifling the insult to our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
Bishop Furse need have no fear of his bathtub scenes being flashed on New York screens, unless he wishes to install a television sending apparatus in his bathroom and engage expert operators; unless he deliberately commands that the bathing scene be transmitted through the ether. Incidently, at present stage of development, the apparatus takes up more room than a piano, costs more thar 20 pianos...