Word: coring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal resolution Congress last spring asked that question of Joseph Bartlett Eastman, radically brilliant Interstate Commerce Commissioner whom President Roosevelt made Federal Coordinator of Transportation and his alter ego on all rail matters. Last week Coordinator Eastman answered the question in a 350-page report, the core of which was: "Theoretically and logically public ownership and operation meet the known ills of the present situation better than any other remedy." But: "I am not now prepared to recommend . . . public ownership and operation . . . for the principal reason that the country is not now financially in a condition to stand the strain...
Erie Canal. This sectional point was wisely not brought out in the minority committee report written by Senator Wagner. "The very core of the St. Lawrence plan," said he, "is the intent to face the railroads with competition, and thus to decrease activity in one industry as fast as it is created in another.'' The President anticipated all such arguments by stating in his special message: "It is, I believe, a historic fact that every great improvement to better commercial communications, whether in the case of railroads into new territory, or the deepening of great rivers...
...Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
Idealists to their hot Spanish core, the revolutionists who sent King Alfonso XIII flying for his life could do no less than give Spanish women the right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...Nazi regime, being desired not simply as an additional pasture for German cows, but as a symbol of Teuton expansion and the first of many successful conquests; the annexation of this province would be the aperitif for the much advertised feasts to come. And the Danes, farmers to the core and Social Democrats as well, are in no mood to ignore threats at their fertile lands and cooperative organizations. But to rally Norway and Sweden behind them may be difficult, for besides the customary international jealousies, Norway is very poutish over Denmark's action in the Greenland case which...