Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator-reject. The Senate dealt finally with Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois. It rejected his credentials for a seat, 61 votes to 23, declaring the credentials "tainted with fraud and corruption" and Mr. Smith "not entitled to membership." Democrats and irregular Republicans were joined by Republican-leader Curtis of Kansas in the decision. While a cry went up that the Senate had invaded a constitutional right of Illinois, the Senate's reasons and actions went on record, in effect, as follows...
Last week Dr. Gessler's words had an honest ring. He is in ill health. Fate has just dealt him a "personal blow" by striking dead, during the past twelvemonth, his two flourishing sons, and, last week, his mother. Since the Fatherland is secure and Otto Gessler stricken, why should he not rest...
...days of moping, pallid Louis IX, "Saint Louis" (1226-70), Frenchmen dealt in a gold coin called the ecu or "crown." Last week M. le Professeur Charles Gide of the College de France proposed that a new ecu be struck with, the value of one U. S. dollar and that the present depreciated franc (4?) be scrapped...
...dart from tree to tree, members of the New York Stock Exchange last week dashed from post to post in restless frenzy to buy, to sell. When one day was done and there had subsided the wild scream of men shouting diversely, they found that they had dealt with 3,228,300 shares...
...States brilliantly and effectively as a special agent of the State Department in Sweden and Russia, and as chief of the inter-allied missions in Vienna and Paris attached to the Peace Conference in 1919. In 1921 he became attached to the American Relief Administration in Russia where he dealt largely with the authorities in the direction of far reaching relief...