Word: corlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor puffin! The poor gannet, poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...
...present disposition of parties in the Chamber of Deputies, M, Herriot has probably the best chance of any Minister of keping a Government in power-and his chances are not too good. But, as he retains the confidence of foreign Powers, particularly Britain, with whom relations grow more cor dial clay by day, his weakness in domestic matters is to a large extent offset; and he might well, despite contrary statements, be expected to survive in office a while longer, were it not for his illness...
...judicial and regulative body. When the War came, it was supplemented by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a Gov-ernment-owned organization, entirely controlled by the Shipping Board, for the purpose of carrying on the business of operating a Government merchant marine. For all intents and purposes, the Emergency Fleet -Cor-poration was the business organization of the Shipping Board. For long the Chairman of the Shipping Board was President of the Corporation. It was not until about a year ago (TIME, Jan. 14) that the two functions were separated and Admiral Leigh C. Palmer named as President of the Corporation...
Administration Policy. This separation of the Board and the Cor- poration appears now to have been the beginning of a new policy under- taken by the Administration. This policy was voiced by President Cool- idge a month ago at the opening of Congress, when he asked for a new law to divorce completely the Board and the Corporation. "Let the Board confine itself to its regulative duties," he said. "Let it lay down general policies, but place the entire business of operating the Government fleet, of carrying out the assigned policy, entirely in the hands of the Corpora-tion...
...Reorganization of the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration so as to restrict the Shipping Board to its original duties as a semi-judicial, policy-and rate-making body and to segregate in the Emergency Fleet Corporation the business of operating the Government merchant fleet...