Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wedding, to present his "private citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last week voted him one of its three annual three-inch golden Distinguished Service Medals...
...Upon the S. S. France appeared Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey, widow of Sculptor Rumsey, daughter of the late great Railroader E. H. Harriman. She declared $1,500 of Paris finery. The inspectors were not satisfied, seized $100,000 worth of jewelry and eleven pieces of baggage. When the France was two days at sea, Mrs. Rumsey had given a jeweled purse to her friend and fellow passenger, Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Bori is a Spanish citizen. Her personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that...
President Hoover called the meeting in the hope that those attending it would contrive a means of reducing oil production, possibly by an interstate compact to be ratified by Congress. No such means was found. Instead, attention was focused upon differences within the oil industry which block the way to conservation. Two factors plainly caused the breakup...
...refusal of independent oil producers to enter any limitation agreement until a duty is placed upon petroleum imports. They contend that the major oil companies will reduce their domestic production only to increase their imports from Mexico and South America, thus nullifying the effect of any conservation agreement. In this position the independents were joined by Louisiana, to which most U. S. oil imports come. Crude oil imports are now about one-tenth of domestic production...
...Upon every newspaper bureau in Washington, in and out of season, rains political publicity. Produced mostly by verbose, news-ignorant hacks, these handouts are sluiced into the trashbasket unread. As they never get into print, they represent a major waste in political party management...