Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Adjusted Service Certificates are nonnegotiable, except in rare instances, and to go beyond those points is a criminal offense...
...Chairman Fess went about making more or less perfunctory speeches, the actual work was done for the G. O. P. by plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry Lucas, who was brought in in August from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to be national executive director. While Chairman Raskob lay low?except to provide money and to answer "Libelous!" last week to an attack on his personal financial behavior during and since the 1929 stock crash?the actual work of the Democrats was done by Jouett Shouse, 51, the horse-faced, horse-minded, Kentucky-born Kansas City lawyer who was called...
...Haven. Conn, was extricating himself as goodnaturedly as he could from beneath a commodious piece of brown headgear which had been shoved down over his ears, not by a Hallowe'ening undergraduate but by a hearty, rough-voiced, middle-aged man whom he did not know very well except that the name was Alfred Emanuel ("Al") Smith. After Mr. Smith of New York left town, Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross reflected that his political baptism in the name of the Brown Derby was by far the most exciting thing that had occurred to him since 1916, when he was appointed Dean...
...summer of 1927. The low price compares to $495,000, the high for a seat after deducting "rights" last year. Elected to the Exchange last week was John Francis Murray, son of the late Inventor Thomas Edward Murray, said to have obtained more patents than any other inventor except Thomas Alva Edison (TIME, May 25, 1925; March 17). Son Murray, a member of the Port of New York Authority, was long connected with Murray Radiator Co., sold recently to American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp...
Matt Welland had a wife and seven children. With the best will in the world he ruined the lives of all except the youngest. His instruments: hypocrisy, religion, love. But so cunningly does Martha Ostenso lay on her colors that in the completed portrait of this family there is not one figure you can hate wholeheartedly...