Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revamping of the civil service may be camouflage to anchor the present recipients of New Deal patronage. For years no Democrat now in office who gave his all to the campaigns of '32 and '36 would have to worry about bread and butter. Although the suggested department of social welfare consolidates a multitude of agencies, there appears no good reason why Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly...
Since the Marsh Buggy frequently cruises on inland waterways, it is licensed as a Class I motorboat, has to carry red. white and green running lights, a mast, an anchor, bowsprit (which folds), life preservers, two sets of government pilot rules. Speed at sea is six knots, on dry land 35 m.p.h., on marsh 12 m.p.h. Since landmarks are scarce in Louisiana marshes and the grass often grows twelve feet tall, all steering is done by compass...
Harvard's Varsity home winter sports schedule will get under way tomorrow, when four of the teams will weigh anchor...
...daylight and darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother had been in Port of Spain on a cruise 32 years before...
Rumors have been wafted about Harvard all week that the Navy was to go out all hog over the game and was to dispatch three battleships from Annapolis to Boston Harbor, where they would anchor for the night...