Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he advocated outright repeal of the 18th Amendment. Said he: "Intoxicating liquor is readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground for the expectation that public sentiment, especially in urban districts, can be changed to the extent necessary. . . . Repeal is the only consistent alternative...
...essential needs of the day is to understand more clearly how to apply Christian ethics to the solution of some of the more perplexing social problems, and how the processes of the state can be made to serve the needs of the many, rather than to become the instrument of the privileged...
Died. Charles Gerard Conn, 86, founder of Conn Band Instrument Co., Civil War Veteran, onetime (1893-95) U. S. Representative from Indiana, one-time owner of the Washington Times; in Los Angeles, Calif...
...took off from New York last week for Bermuda, Azores, Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong thereafter and turned back to safety at Norfolk...
...telescopic observer's platform which revolves in any direction, permitting a person making observations to follow the instrument in its rotation, has been constructed for the Harvard Observatory, by the General Electric Company plant at West Lynn...