Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause. For these losses pastors were bluntly blamed: "They are the leaders in all the congregations. Unless they lead, there will be no followers. They must not be leaders to get people out of the churches, but to get them...
...Whether in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...
...credit corporations were "absolutely worthless." Mr. J. M. Barham, bank president at Avoyelles, La., said: "The banks would like to help but they cannot for they are already drained to the limit. They are all loaded down with farm paper. ... It is a fearful predicament for these unhappy people. . . . Unless something is done they will be face to face with starvation...
Cities between Boston and St. Louis will for the next ten weeks be visited by the first "flying cigar store," unless it, the much-traveled Sikorsky biplane S-29,* specially tricked out and loaded by the United Cigar Stores Co., has further misfortune. Last week, trying to start its tour from Curtiss Field, L. I., it bowled into a smaller ship obscured by dust on the field, delaying its departure four days. On board were eight persons including skipper and wife, salesmen, mechanics...
...Charles D. Mahaffie, director of Bureau of Finance of the Interstate Commerce Commission? And John James Tigert himself, U. S. Commissioner of Education? These and many another Rhodes Scholar are as well known as able President Aydelotte, or should be. Rhodes Scholars have distinguished themselves right and left?unless "running the country" be taken to mean the somewhat vulgar occupation of politics...