Word: aboutâ
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...When the musicians play, Pribilof fur seals?if any chance to be about???are piped to the surface. The cutter swings, the music sounds again; again the rising seals are noted. Presently the guardsmen have formed a very good idea of the size of the seal herd, a report on which is part of their duty...
Political ineptitude in Herbert Hoover was one thing the country had been loudly warned about???but in the summer of Prosperity neither leaders nor masses gave a fig for statecraft. The tariff fight first made this deficiency glaringly plain. The President had called for "limited revision" but had miscalculated the greedy demands upon his own party from industrialists for top-notch rates. Their pressure soon put Congress clean...