Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this end. With the approval of President Coolidge, he last week called a conference of State Public Service Commission officials at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan. From New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire they came; they listened to Mr. Hoover explain how an annual saving of over $500,000,000 and 50,000,000 tons of coal in the eleven New England and Middle Atlantic states alone could be made on an investment...
...while for the waterpower and fertilizer financiers who control this situation to pay $100,000,000 if thereby they can retain the endless millions which they now make through exorbitant prices. My offer is still before Congress. I shall not withdraw it. There is nothing whatever for me to explain. There is nothing that John W. Weeks can explain though he talks from now until he leaves public life. . . . Let him explain to the farmers...
...Klan should exist is cause for surprise. That college men, especially Harvard College men, supposedly rational and tolerant, should accept the doctrines of the Klan, founded as they are on blind prejudice and fierce racial bitterness, is extraordinary. It is but little excuse, however much it may serve to explain the situation, that the romantic and mysterious glamor of hooded figures of the inborn American craving to belong to something are probably the real attraction...
...order to get these cooperative associations under way Mr. Meyer and Frank W. Mondell will make a tour of the Northwest, examining conditions. They have an intimate knowledge of cooperation as practiced by tobacco, rice and cotton growers and the fruit raisers of the Pacific. They can at least explain the necessities of such plans, and may initiate the first steps...
...department of Military Science has a dual responsibility to fulfill," declared Lieutenant Colonel Browning, U. S. Army, in charge of the reserve officers training corps at Harvard, when asked to explain the relation between the Military Science department and the other departments of the University. "We have duties to discharge both to the War Department and to Harvard University...