Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...submitted to the Senate by John Hay, Secretary of State to President Roosevelt, over 20 years ago, continued to produce an unprofitable rumpus. The island was not specifically mentioned in the post-war treaty with Spain at the end of the last century. Various real estate companies sold much land on the island to Americans, with the under-standing that it was U. S. property. The State Department has never taken this view, holding-and in this supported by the Supreme Court-that the island is territorially a part of Cuba (TIME, Dec. 22). The Senate, however, has never ratified...
...recall, moreover, that when the country was startled by the story of Newberry's bribery and corruption, when a shiver of horror went over the land the distinguished Senator from Missouri saw no evil, heard no evil, spoke no evil...
...only that, but the time came when the Congress of the United States compensated Lafayette; and I have upon my desk now the statue which we enacted paying him for his services and deeding to him a large tract of land. The United States met every obligation and she did not plead at that time, as it is pleaded now, that the war was fought upon her territory and therefore we should not pay the debt. She did not plead that France came into the war late, after the battle of Saratoga, and, therefore, we should not pay the debt...
...East River at 31st street, Manhattan, as a flying boat, and alighted some two hours later on solid ground at Bolling Field, Washington, D. C. The Amphibian is the first of ten machines to be delivered to the Army for use in the Philippines, where water or land duty may fall indiscriminately to Air Service officers. Its versatility is obtained in very simple fashion. The fuselage or body is shaped just like the hull of a flying boat, but underneath is attached a folding landing gear. When the pilot presses a switch, the landing gear folds rapidly upwards with...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...