Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would President Coolidge ask Mr. Morrow to behave in the Land of Maņana? Here was the focus of attention for people who know Mr. Morrow as well as the President does. Like the President, they could align Mr. Morrow's undoubted, ability and his Morgan connection as natural complements. They could see the U. S. well served by an understanding of Mexican conditions that has been found serviceable by J. P. Morgan & Co. They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William...
...With the passing of Lawyer Wayne B. Wheeler (TIME, Sept. 12, Milestones), some one had to take over his labors as the Anti-Saloon League's representative in the lobbies of Congress. The Anti-Saloon League spent 50 millions putting prohibition on paper as the law of the land. It has been spending about two millions per annum ever since to prod politicians into enforcing the law of the land. Enforcement having made scarcely any headway lately, and many a politician who is neither wet nor dry having lately for- gotten to be dry outwardly, the Anti-Saloon League...
...same moment that war is proclaimed giant fleets of airplanes, airships and U-boats will be informed by wireless. Merchantmen will be destroyed immediately and a nation unprepared for war will be exterminated within 48 hours. On land and sea new and pernicious gases and explosives, unknown in Germany, will be employed and annihilate the weaker nations within a moment...
Then the Emperor announced to the assembled dignitaries of the land that the name of his last offspring is Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya...
Houses collapsed and the litter they made was hurled over the land for miles. Heavy rains beat down. Rivers and streams rose seething, overflowing their banks and rushing through the already flattened rice fields. Whipped into angry eddies by the driving storm, the flood carried whole houses with...