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...common property of husband and wife to the spouse having control of the income. (Some states allow husband and wife to split this return, an unfair advantage over citizens of other states...
Conservatives. The Conservative Party is virtually split. One section supports free trade; the other a vague protectionist policy. The latter is headed by Premier Baldwin and is committed by the Bonar Law pledge to a general election. The former contains such men as Lords Derby, Robert Cecil, Salisbury, who are anxious to maintain the Administration until after the passage of the House of Lords Re-form Bill, which has been the morceau choisi of the Conservative Party for years. This Bill is designed by the Conservatives to increase the power of the Lords...
...manipulation of plebian statesmen. King George of Greece has been requested to take a vacation for two months while the people of Greece decide a few matters; the Crown Prince has taken a trip from Holland to Silesia, said to be instigated by Chancellor Streseman in order to split the Monarchist party; and Mirabile dictu, the discarded Kaiser is reported on the verge of a return to the Fatherland. Although the Kaiser has lost every vestige of authority, Europeans are showing an increasing tendency to intrust their causes to a leader extraordinary which may give him sudden power...
These optimistic events at once split Wall Street into two schools of thought. One declared its belief that the turn had come, and that pessimistic predictions regarding 1924 had been overdone. The other, bearish to begin with, continued in that frame of mind; it viewed with cynical suspicion the remarkable coincidence of the extra Steel dividend, Judge Gary's cheerful prophecies, Broker Livermore's equally cheerful pronouncement, the upward rush in the price of the four present leading speculative stocks...
...Admiral who does not fear to bravely split his infinitives...