Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well planned shelves, an electric fruit juice squeezer and nautical accessories are features of this bar in a ship room. The pirate panel at the back was done by Charles Baskerville...
...just plain common land, unreserved and unappropriated. It is fit only for cattle-grazing for which it has been used so hard that in a score of years it has deteriorated 50%. In another 20 years it will become worthless. Before that happens President Hoover wants to turn it back to the States in which it lies...
Last week the Governors of eleven Western States met at Salt Lake City. To them President Hoover sent Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon with a 2,000-word message, containing a proposal that these 302,000 sq. mi. be turned back, free, to States in which they lay. The President proposed the appointment of another commission (his ninth) to investigate the matter. But there were important reservations in the Hoover offer: The States would get only the "surface rights" to this land, the U. S. retaining the all-profitable mineral rights. Forest reserves, power sites, national parks...
...Back to Administrator Campbell went the speakeasy complaints and with them a letter rejecting the U. S. proposal, refusing to use city police as dry agents. Wrote Commissioner Whalen...
...house (TIME, May 27). He would, they predicted, never return to the U. S. to risk the outcome of a U. S. Supreme Court verdict such as Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair received for refusing to answer the U. S. Senate. But he said: "I'll be back this fall. . . . I'll never retire from politics...