Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I am unable to say, which "one" of a dozen or more the Senator "saw," but everyone of them could no doubt hit the ground with his hat and therefore be unable to qualify. And along with the Senator, they all wore their hats large in those days...
Immigration. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court set aside the Jay Treaty of 1794-on the ground that the treaty had died in the War of 1812-and declared that aliens resident in Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court...
...seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
Objection is made to this system of relief on the ground that the farmer in the cooperative association risks a loss, whereas the farmer who stays out profits by higher prices gained through the association's activities but risks no loss...
...race long the victim of the inbreeding of defectives will commence within earshot of the Square. At present no steps to avert the holding of the Music Box endurance run are reported to have been taken by the board of health, but that may well be explained on the ground that the community physicians are interested merely in the physical well being of their charges...