Word: council
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...economically independent of the rest of the world by 1933. Today the Soviet Union grows in Russian Turkestan 50% of the cotton it consumes, imports the rest from the U. S. and Egypt. How much more cotton can Turkestan be made to yield? For weeks the Soviet Supreme Economic Council has been thrashing out that question with a sagacious and experienced U. S. citizen, Engineer Arthur Powell Davis, 68, who for nine years was Director of the Bureau of Reclamation at Washington...
Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
Norton received his degree from Harvard, magna cum laude, in History and Literature. He was captain of the Junior University crew in 1928, a member of the Student Council, and president of the Signet Society. In his Freshman year, he was chairman of the Freshman Entertainment Committee, and captain of his class crew. One of his activities was membership in the John Barnard Associates, bibliophiles...
...Foreign Students Committee, with Carl Parker '31 as Chairman, prepares a list of all foreign students at the University and organizes an International Council, a club of discussion, meeting monthly. This committee assists foreign students in every way possible...