Word: arid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The most valid and puissant argument that I have knowledge of, for the retention of the 18th amendment in our constitution was that advanced by the Hon. Jack Bradford, prominent lawyer and planter of Itta Bena, Miss, (a so-called arid State) in a speech yesterday delivered on the Jones Fedric Plantation at the annual squirrel stew. Guests were the important cotton planters of this Mississippi Delta section. Applause was gusty. For the information of your readers, I quote the speech [in part]: ". . . Taxation is destroying our nation. We have been taxed in every way that the ingenuity...
...introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...
...your boudoir was a cage Still, you never lied arid simpered...
...real education is as far removed from drilling on certain rigidly set material as is the work of an artist from that of an accountant. With the complete "New Plan" in force, however, the schools at all events would be deprived of a long-standing excuse for much arid and unfruitful instruction...
High in the Andes, Chile and the Brothers Guggenheim are in business together digging nitrates from a vast arid plain. Their company, Cosach, was a major political issue in Chile last autumn and the Brothers Guggenheim were threatened with eviction (TIME, Sept. 14; Nov. 23). Last week smiling new President Juan Esteban Montero ignored a previous commission's philippic which demanded Cosach's dissolution,, and issued through his Minister of Finance a favorable report. Cosach was glad to hear it. The company needed money and could not get it while the inquiry in Chile was under...