Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service in that post violate an ancient statute saying: "No . . . Secretary of the Treasury . . . shall directly or indirectly be concerned or interested in the business of trade or commerce or be owner in whole or in part of any sea vessel...
...year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export market; 7) necessitate further tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations; 9) put U. S. livestock men at a disadvantage by raising U. S. feed prices; 10) increase U. S. taxes. President Hoover summed up: ". . . [its] theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the farmer; it would create profiteering...
...remembered that the Fatherland was stripped of colonies after the War, and thus deprived of raw materials which would very materially have assisted debt payment. It is conceivable that in German East Africa alone there may eventually be found enough gold, copper, coal and oil to pay the whole reparations bill. It is but natural that Dr. Schacht should cast eyes upon these resources, that he should remember East Prussia, now cut off from Germany by the "corridor" which Poland was given to connect her with the sea. On the other hand the "Iron Man" might have had common sense...
...question of monarchy has ceased to be an issue among the working classes. The Prince has been a chief factor in destroying my republicanism. I departed from my revolutionary opinions because the Prince departed from the orthodox conduct of royalty. He has broken the whole tradition of royalty and has made the British throne the safest in the world and himself the safest man in England. He is today the chief advocate of social reform in England. A year ago this statement would have met with hooting and indignation at any labor meeting, but now would receive cheers...
...having maligned the whole profession of dentists," the manager of the Comedy Theatre in Budapest was fined, last week, 50 pengos ($8.75). He had produced Lullaby, by satiric Dramatist Ladislaus Fodor, who makes one of his characters say: "In my youth I had scientific ambitions, but I deteriorated and became a dentist...