Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public domain once consisted of all U. S. land outside the 13 original States and Texas. Free land was the great natural resource upon which the new country was built. For generations it served as a prime political issue. In 1836 Henry Clay, then a U. S. Senator from Kentucky, pointed with pride to "the prodigious sum of one billion and eighty million acres" of public domain (about one-half the present size of the U. S.). Prophetically he exclaimed: "Long after we shall cease to be agitated by the Tariff, the public lands will remain a subject of deep...
...pages the Fortes Gil Labor Code is too complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment of his pet Labor Code through Congress...
German and U. S. skippers still had a wan hope of nosing out the lone Swedish entry in the three free-for-all races for the Chandler Hovey and Williams trophies. Three German, five U. S. yachts were entered. But the tedious Bachante won every race. Four silver cups were handed over to the round-faced, debonair Capt. Lundberg. Benignly he in turn presented a cup to the skipper of the German Hathi, runner-up in the free-for-all event...
Runabouts, hydroplanes, outboards all had their events at Red Bank. In a final grand free-for-all for a special trophy molded from a solid gold brick, presented by Barren Collier, two drivers of skittish little outboards, encouraged by the result of the gold cup race, entered their craft on the slim hope that the hydroplanes would all tip over, fall apart or blow...
Good wines come from Burgundy and so does Mme. Gabrielle Colette. Colette, who acted Léa in the 1925 dramatization of Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...