[…] committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their views and estimates to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadline ahead to March 1 for Senate committees.

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Suddenly the flag lieutenant grabbed an air vice-marshal's daughter by the hand and dragged her past the Charltons […] Flags was always doing something of this sort, and although Paul did not know him, he disliked it […]

Being unable to pay the note at maturity, Laws went with Starr to one Snyder, to whom the note was sold at a “shave,” as the parties called it, of 10 per cent.