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...Treasurer said he would operate the biggest pawnbroking business in the country. Every member of the Church was asked to send his watch to the Treasurer and later to redeem it at its sales value. It will take 222,500 watches of an average value of $10 to wipe out the debt...
...Burden. "If this bill becomes law, we wipe out at once almost all the progress five hard years have accomplished in reducing the national debt. . . . The prosperity of the nation, which is the prosperity of the people, rests primarily on reducing the existing tax burden. No other action would so encourage business...
Presbyterian liberals have been rejoicing these last two months on a matter of finance. Official figures still remain unknown, but it is definitely asserted that, in spite of Fundamentalist attempts to boycott the Foreign Missions board, the church has raised its entire budget, and, in addition, $700,000 to wipe out last year's deficit...
...some indulgent genie could wipe the first inning off yesterday's slate, Bowdoin would have to its credit a victory over Harvard, and moundsman Robinson might have his hat in the baseball Hall of Fame reserved for pitchers of no-hit games. For the last eight innings the Bowdoin twirler had the Crimson eating out of his hand hitless and well nigh runless; but since he had no magic lamp to rub, the first inning must stand, leaving Harvard a 6 to 3 victor and Robinson not an immortal, but only a defeated pitcher...
...swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric handkerchief, he worsts that most delectable of all villains, Noah Beery, and returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine, and dialogue in which there "ah no ahs." So once more Rhodemont is made ridiculous and everybody has a great laugh if he is feeling foolish...