Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Customs officials justify their collection of duty on declarations by saying that tourists (although generally ignorant of the fact) prefer to pay the extra duty rather than bear the delay. They also say that it would take so long to value tourists' purchases properly that it would be impossible to handle the large influx of tourists which occurs toward the end of every summer. About one-third of all returning tourists pay duty. How much excess duty they pay can only be conjectured?the guess of customs officials was $2,000,000 a year...
...that they be invited to express them. I'm wondering whether the public is really interested or are they too busy in their mad rush watching the ticker in Wall Street, or worrying how to provide funds to pay the next installment on the new car! Perhaps they prefer to leave it to the President's Crime Commission to diagnose the case and propose a suitable remedy...
...Republican candidate Benjamin Loring Young to the Senate last November. Quick to retort was Frank J. Donahue, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee: "Since the direct election of U. S. senators the Senate has become the liberal and progressive branch of the national government. . . . Does Mr. Liggett prefer the Platts, Quays, Penroses and Aldriches of his party to the Borahs, Johnsons, Norrises and Kenyons?" Mr. Donahue succeeded in electing his Democratic candidate, David Ignatius Walsh, to the Senate last November...
...steelmongers prefer foreign manganese ore. The domestic ore has a low metal content. Of the U. S. consumption, 95% is imported despite higher foreign prices. Last year the U. S. collected $8,065,155 in manganese ore tariffs...
...China has been squandering annually on bootless wars. He, T. V. Soong, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, would no more be a party to China's orgy of military waste. In fine, he announced his resignation as Finance Minister of the Nationalist Government. "I prefer to retire," concluded Banker Soong, "rather than face the just censure of a sorely tried people...