Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determination of unemployment and to establish the method of co-operation between government departments and business. 2) To investigate the whole question of bankruptcy law and practice, to propose to Congress some essential reforms. 3) To study the practicability of a road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions . . . we may suggest they are not a new necessity in government. President Roosevelt created 107 of them, President Taft 63, President Wilson 160, President Harding 44, President Coolidge...
...White has been misrepresenting conditions in Alaska for some time. . . . Did not the Saturday Evening Post, a few weeks after publishing Mr. White's article on bears, have to retract and apologize to its readers for misstatements on Mr. White's part...
...lived in Alaska 20 years and when the citizens of that territory pass a law for the protection of their industries and of their very lives, let the people here in the States leave them alone...
...Alaska belongs to the United States and its development means much to our country. Do you think settlers wish to go there when our country prefers bears to settlers...
...retraction" published by the Saturday Evening Post (issue of June 7) consisted of a letter from Sportsman White admitting he was technically incorrect in stating that all protection had been removed from Alaska's bears. He then analyzed what the "protection" amounted to: a closed season between June 20 and Sept. 1 on five small islands (not including large Kodiak, Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof islands, the bears' principal homes) and on small sectors of the mainland...