Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with, Lieut. Col. Ulysses S. Grant...
Spring was coming to Washington with a rush. Sap was rising. The Japanese cherry trees encircling the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park were about to burgeon. A soft greenish sentimentality was adrift in the air. Ulysses Simpson Grant III walked out of the long flat Navy building, sniffed the sweet air, drove to the Tidal Basin, examined the cherry tree buds with the expert eye of a lieutenant-colonel of engineers. Then, in his official capacity as Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, he predicted that these famed trees would blossom forth in all their...
...acres of forest land from commercial exploitation. William Howard Taft in 1909 withdrew 7,000,000 acres of oil-bearing land. In 1920 Congress passed an oil-leasing act which upset the Roosevelt-Taft policy by permitting the Secretary of the Interior to allow oil prospecting, to grant oil leases. This act spawned the oil corruption of the Harding administration. Now, in the acreage it affects, the Hoover order far outdoes Roosevelt and Taft orders combined...
...Nine grants to Harvard professors were voted from this fund, which is to be used over a period of five years, by the committee of five recently appointed to administer the yearly appropriations. The Division of Ancient Languages and the Division of Modern Languages are given aid in the publication of Harvard Studies in Philology. E. K. Rand '94 will receive a grant for a survey of the manuscripts of Tours and work on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. C. N. Greenough '98, Professor of English is enabled to secure an assistant and two cataloguers to assist him in preparing...
Assistance is given R. L. Hawkins '03. Associate Professor of French, in the publication of hitherto unpublished-letters existent in America, from Frenchmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. F. S. Cawley '10. Assistant Professor of German, receives a grant for the publication of an Icelandic Saga: and Walter Silz '17, also Assistant Professor of German, is aided in the publication of work on the German Romanticists...