Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, the writer has been often annoyed, and frequently amused at what seems to be a favorite indoor sport of the French people. At meal times in the restaurants and hotels at table, it seems to be a universal custom for some Frenchman to blow a loud blast upon his nasal appendage (regularly called "bugle" in the United States...
...panic in the stockmarket. . . . The cure for such storms is action. . . . No movement to reduce wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...
...occasion, near the front, Major Hurley failed to salute General Pershing. The A. E. F. commander ordered him back, berated him. Six years later Mr. Hurley, civilian, burst jovially in upon General Pershing in his Washington office, defied being made to salute again. Gen eral Pershing was amused...
Shamed by the House's despatch on tax reduction, the Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase...
...punned Business Manager Louis Wiley of the New York Times, toastmaster at a send-off luncheon last week in Manhattan to Walter Evans Edge, embarking as Ambassador to France. But in New Jersey many a Republican looked with anything but joy upon Dwight Whitney Morrow's decision to leave his embassy in Mexico City and-after the London naval conference-succeed Mr. Edge in the Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already...