Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They too kthe Governor from the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago where they first lodged him and carried him by automobile some 20 or 25 miles out of Chicago to the Beverly Hills forest preserve. Newspaper men trooped along- some Manhattan papers going so far as to send men on for the event-because they were sure it was going to be a great picnic, and because they were sure it was going to be the beginning of the "Smith for President in 1928" movement...
Eduardo Sauchez '26, President of the Dramatic Club, speaking of the producer's visit, said: "The Dramatic Club is fortunate in being able to secure Basil Dean for tomorrow's meeting at the Union. His visit is especially significant at this time as Galsworthy's "Forest," a play now being considered for production by the Dramatic Club, had its most notable presentation in London under the man who tomorrow will speak at the Union...
Particularly cattlemen, who have been almost ruined by recent conditions, want permits to graze in the public for perpetuity with fees only large enough to cover the Government's administration expenses. The Forestry Bureau is unwilling to surrender the nation's forest reserves to the tender mercies of the hard pressed cattlemen. The other chief point on which the contest will be waged is why the Government has delayed undertaking irrigation projects authorized by Congress (see CABINET...
...Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would be like turning the Yosemite into an onion...
...them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams in one half, and William Johnston and Richards in the other, they expected that these four players would move smoothly through to the semifinals; they expected that the dashing foreigners-Borotra of France, Alonzo of Spain, Anderson of Australia-would fall...