Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...received will be sorted out and sent to the institutions named below for distribution to the poor according to location and size. In this way the aid is given to those who are really in need, for these institutions keep in constant touch with the families and know their exact condition. They...
...Nations, and this was never more clearly shown than in a test vote during the Senate controversy last spring, when an overwhelming majority of the members of the upper house expressed their desire for some sort of a League. The snag that is still holding them is the exact kind of a League desired. Obviously the underlying choice of the campaign is not the much touted and buffeted League, but a deeper decision on parties and leaders...
Owing to a revision in the program of Governor Cox's visit to Massachusetts made by the Democratic State Committee yesterday, Governor Cox will speak at the Union somewhat later than previously announced. The exact hour for his speech, which is at present set for 8.15 tomorrow night, cannot be determined, however, until the schedule of the Governor's special train is completely worked...
...primary results "are a fraud upon the people and mislead thousands of well-meaning persons who have not been brought face to face with the facts." An exact description, which the American people, with their "ancient and inbred honesty and integrity," ought to make an obituary, of this costly humbug device to find out nothing. --New York Times...
...personal advantage. The nations that today possess the soundest traditions of orderly government are the ones that have sacrificed most for it in the past. Their history is filled with the record of lost causes, which have in the end been victorious. It is difficult to predict the exact outcome of the present Mexican revolution. Just now it seems likely that a new government may be established within a very short time. But unless there is a marked change in the Mexican character, it is not likely that the displacement of another leader will do much good. For the nation...