Word: bogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With these words and a few more President Hoover last week started the Federal Farm Board off on its long task of jacking husbandry up out of its economic bog. The President met the Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A member to represent Wheat, whom President Hoover had not yet been able to find. Two last-minute Board appointees: William Frank Schilling of Northfield, Minn, to represent Dairy Interests; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y. to represent truck-gardeners...
...Shipping Board last week lifted its best foot and prepared to take a $16,000.000 step out of the bog of unprofitable Government shipping. The Senate, all nerves, screamed protests. The Shipping Board put its best foot back into the bog and waited. President Coolidge scowled displeasure at the Senate...
...ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
Painter Mattison appeared to be an academician before his time. His was an old-fashioned mythology picture, called Ignis Fatuus. In the painting, there were the nymphs who, according to fable, lured reckless sensation-seekers across the bogs outside of Rome eager to discover the secret of the strange fires that burned upon them. Artist Mattison had included in his composition a man chasing the three false fiery girls. He was clutching at them but his hands were empty, the nymphs were laughing and the man was about to sink down in the bog. The background of the picture...
...respondents promptly accused the I. C. C., as it had been accused before, of presuming to equalize prosperity between two competing sections of the country, i.e. to help the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio coal interests out of the bog into which their labor troubles have thrust them. This the I. C. C. has no power to do, as was sharply suggested by the Senate last month. The barb in the Senate's pending investigation of the I. C. C. (TIME, Feb. 20) is a clause directing the Commissioners to cite statutory authorities for each & every one of their...