Word: landed
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Other Developments. Between the Capitol and the Union Station are now either vacant lots or ramshackle old buildings, many of them of War-time origin. For five million dollars the U. S. acquired this land to develop it into a connecting parkway, to cut a new avenue through from the station to Pennsylvania Avenue...
Concession on Land. When Herbert Hoover went to Belgium in 1915 as Commissioner for Relief, he found Hugh Gibson as First Secretary of the American legation in Brussels and the two men soon became closest friends. During 1918-19, Mr. Gibson was detailed by the State Department for special and extraordinary duty under Mr. Hoover, then Director General of Relief. So intimate are President and Ambassador today that Mr. Gibson dared, two days after his naval speech last week, to pledge the U. S. to a most vital concession with respect to land armaments in a second blue-bolt speech...
...With this in mind I am able to declare that the American Government as a practical matter is disposed to defer to the views of the majority of those countries whose land forces constitute their chief military interest, and in the draft convention before us, to accept their ideas in the matter of trained reserves...
...need not be much impressed by the fact that Mr. Gibson's country, a sea power, agrees to declare its disinterestedness in the question of trained land reserves...
Died. William Spry, 65, of Salt Lake City, since 1921 Commissioner of the General Land Office (Department of the Interior), twice (1909-17) Governor of Utah, Republican, Mormon, native of England; of paralysis; in Washington...