Word: offseting
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...extremely high tariff comes from the Senate with the damning of everyone except the good old Republican regulars. The farmers find in it no relief for their troubles. The heavy industrial flavor of the rate increases will shoot up the cost of living more than enough to offset the agricultural protection. Economists in the cloister are unanimous in condemning the increase at the present time. Even the business men whom the Boston Herald would have settle the tariff are opposed to the new measure. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, friends of the President and giants of industry...
...harm they may have done is offset in some degree in the public mind by the knowledge that it is a case of childishness run riot and that the men guilty of the folly have failed utterly to grasp the spirit of sportsmanship, good fellowship and good taste taught by the university they so completely misrepresent...
...World peace was again President Hoover's text in a speech to the Daughters of the American Revolution, in which he again urged U. S. entry into the World Court under the Root formula. As if to offset the victory of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois earlier in the week as a World Court opponent, President Hoover declared: " I have no doubt that the U. S. will become a member of the Court. ... It is easy to preach ... peace. It is easier still to engage in invective or vindictive phrase or slogan which stir national selfishness and self...
According to Admiral Magruder and the Navy's Bureau of Navigation these maneuvers proved the "high vulnerability" of the carrier at the hands of an attacking squadron, which was offset by "the tremendous advantage in a main action by that side which had command...
Wall Street's tribulations affected the sale of Fine Art only in December. This decline was offset, however, by heavy buying earlier in the year. Total business was reported to have exceeded that of any year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...