Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...
Thus it happened that Firestone Plantations, Ltd. of Akron (Ohio), London and Singapore was confirmed by the Liberian Congress last week, in its 99-year lease on 1,000,000 acres of land suitable for rubber production and 200,000 acres planted 16 years ago and now in full production. To reclaim the 1,000,000 acres of present Firestone jungle, 350,000 Liberians will be needed at a cost of $100,000,000. The tracts if fully developed should produce 400,000,000 pounds of rubber annually? about half the rubber consumed this year...
...Firestone Jr. (Princeton '20) has largely engineered the groundwork of this vast project. Recently he surveyed the Philippines for further rubber possibilities, told President Coolidge at White Pine Camp (TIME, Aug. 16) that "in 15 years the United States could become independent of the British Rubber monopoly" if Philippine land laws are modified to encourage U. S. investments there...
Composer Charles Wakefield Cadman is famed for his Indian Lyrics. "At Dawning" (popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...supper, dusting closets, beating carpetscause he had talent. A black man with talent might find a patron, but only because he was black. Palmer Hayden, Negro, found no patron. He washed windows for a living, painted scenes that he rememberednished pictures and two sketches, they depicted the Holy Land he is held, pretending to be an artist? The critics may have been right. Mr. Cornwall's work has a facility that keeps it from being important. He gets huge prices for his commercial work. His career is significant because it is a career typical of this country...