Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west of England had first sailed into the grey shimmering bay that smelt of woods and wild grape, looking for something; liberty . . . freedom to worship God in their own manner . . . space to breathe. Thinking of these things, worrying as he pushed the little cart loaded with eels, haddock, cod, halibut, swordfish, Vanzetti spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist...
Rivers and Harbors. The House passed a bill for improvement of rivers and harbors but it contains a number of controversial features, purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, deepening of the Illinois and of the Missouri Rivers, which will delay if not prohibit its passage by the Senate at this session...
...Great Lakes and the Gulf. 2) $100,000 for a survey of the so-called All-American route (through New York) for a canal for large vessels from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic (TIME, April 5, SHIPPING) and an appropriation of $11,500,000 to buy the Cape Cod Canal from its private owners...
...onetime Senator Burton of Ohio, fought the Illinois waterway tooth and nail, because they alleged it would lower the level of the lakes. They also charged that the survey of the All-American route was a waste of money because the project was impracticable. Another group opposed the Cape Cod Canal purchase, charging that it. was an attempt to unload an unprofitable* private enterprise on the Government...
...President was invited last week to spend his summer 1) at Lake Winnepesaukee, 2) on Cape Cod. He announced that he would summer somewhere in New England but would not choose a spot until he had sent a man to investigate the offered sites...