Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board ship the ubiquitous immigration officers questioned her. She said she was divorced. They asked "Why?" She told them. Instead of being allowed to land with the other cabin passengers, she was sans ceremony inclosed on Ellis Island. A board gave her a hearing and decided she must be deported. U. S. courts had held that adultery is a crime. She admitted what is at least equivalent to adultery. The officials opined that adultery involves moral turpitude. She appealed to Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. He granted the appeal, considered for several days, and decided he had no choice...
...Lloyd George's automobile sped toward Kingsway Hall, Lon, where 1,500 delegates of his party (Liberal) were assembling to decide whether they would support his well-advertised Land Tenure Reform scheme (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). Mr. George's motor accidentally crashed into one of the stanchions of the hall, stopped. Mr. George stepped out of the wreckage, entered the hall...
Farmer Liberal enthusiasts for his scheme virtually to nationalize the land applauded such sentiments as those uttered by one Mr. Lovel of Somersetshire...
...George, as always, compromised with his detractors. Instead of insisting that his form of "nationalization" should be presented to Parliament with the idea of having it made applicable to all land, he accepted a modified wording: "that land shall be held under a variety of tenures to meet different local conditions...
...where atmosphere and setting are sufficiently powerful to reach the imagination of the audience, then it is better to tell the tale without flourishes. "Moana" gives each person in the audience a chance to slip down in his chair and dream his own dreams, with Polynesia unrolling a fairy land before his eyes...