Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The point was that in 1922 the purchasing power of farm products fell from 205 to 116 points. All other products fell simultaneously from 241 to 167 points. "So," explained Mr. Jardine, "when we hit the bottom other industries stood at 167 points and agriculture stood at 116. ... At this...
In this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks...
For 90 years Britons have adventured out to India and returned a-homing upon steamers bearing the triliteral device, "P. & O." Not the Bank of England is more symbolic of British fiscal solidarity than the chunky, workaday steam packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. "Gawd! I wisht...
"Whereas my honored and revered great-grandfather, Anson G. Phelps, bequeathed to my father $5,000 . . . the income therefrom to be devoted to the spread of the Gospel and to promote the Kingdom of the Redeemer on Earth . . . I bequeath the said sum of $5,000 to my son, Cleveland...
*Able, righteous Senator Borah had once played with Presidential etiquette by failing to appear at a White House luncheon for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is chairman. No explanation of the incident was made at the time, but last week it was said that Senator Borah had...