Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the Constitution, it is the duty of the President to administer and enforce the laws of the land, to advise the Congress on the state of the Union, etc. The Constitution does not require the President to be the great moral preceptor of the people. President Coolidge has taken unto himself this extra-legal duty, as has many another President. The late Theodore Roosevelt used to dispense moral pap while he was tossing the "big stick," like a juggler chatting with his audience while his eggs are in the air. President Coolidge, however, in his speech...
...Tredegar, 53 years ago-the son and grandson of stout iron workers. One day, when he was eight, his mother dragged him out from under his bed by the heels. He tried to grip the floor and got splinters in his hands, but he was taken off to the land of liberty by his family, who believed: "The American mind is right. Go to America...
...immigration problem is a perennial weed, which always flourishes in new countries whose natural resources, cheap land, and high wages offer inducement to foreigners to settle within their boundaries. In the United States the problem has again sprung into life with the proposed changes in quota as established...
...Central America, a half-dozen specks capable of landing on either land or water progressed southwards in hops and jumps. They were the six U. S. Army amphibian planes bearing their crews on the first legs of their proposed "friendship flight" around South America...
Near Windermere, England, a speck circled, hovered about and landed upon the 300-ft.-by-20-foot plateau which is the summit of Mount Helvellyn, third highest eminence (3,118 feet) in England. Later the speck ascended again, soared away. It was Pilot John Leeming Of the Lancashire Aero Club who, with a bonfire on the snow to indicate the wind and crosses marking possible landing sites, sought to demonstrate upon what a small place an airplane can land...