Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mr. Harding's interpretation of the law is important because it gives the Chief Executive wider power over the tariff than was intended when the law was drawn. Only half an hour before President Harding met the Tariff Commission, Senator Smoot, who was responsible for the elastic provision of the Tariff Act, called at the White House and told the President that Congress had no intention of giving the Tariff Commission general permission to rewrite the tariff...
...danger of admitting too many immigrants during an industrial boom, is perhaps best illustrated by the economics of the situation as it has operated historically. The agricultural population is the labor reserve of industry. In settled countries when industry is booming labor is drawn off the land into the factories. When industry is depressed this reserve goes back to the land. In America, which until about 20 years ago was a pioneer and not a settled country, the labor for expanding industries was drawn from; Europe. Statistics show that the rate of influx of immigrants and the rate of production...
This suggests strongly that the Administration is prepared to press as its program the plans being drawn by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The 1920 Transportation Act directed the Commission to prepare tentative plans for consolidating the railroads. This was done, and in August, 1921, a plan for uniting the roads into 19 systems was announced. Then the Commission set about comparing notes with the railroads and getting their suggestions on consolidation. Hearings were held for the railways west of the Mississippi and for the railways south of the Ohio. On May 16 hearings will be opened at Washington...
...only weaknesses in the book are the title and the end. Mr. Young should have been drawn the blind when the hero and heroine got married. "Pilgrim's Rest", is the title, and it looks suspiciously as if the sound of the name caught the fancy of the author, and was dragged in those twenty extra pages to give an excuse for being used as a title. However "Pilgrim's Rest" it is, and it is distinctly worth while reading...
...will again be very large, both in the number of entries and in the extent of the interest which has been aroused in it. More than 450 institutions have entered, the events, thus exceeding last year's list of 425. The entries include squads from more than 80 colleges drawn from all parts of the United States, and also, in the feature two mile championship relay, a team from Oxford University, England...