Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the vast sounding board that is the White House, headline after headline boomed last week across the land. Their substance was furnished by conference after conference within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
Reason: the owners, some former nobles and princes of Mongolia, had not cultivated their land in the high-pressure fashion ordered by Red Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME...
Last year ten Negroes were lynched in the land. Mississippi killed half of them. Louisiana and Texas ran neck and neck for second place with two each. Missouri brought up the rear with one. With five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...
Progress of the President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...
...Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series of marches and countermarches in boudoir land, is open to dispute. For despite its tail coats, pajamas and cocktails, the play is a pungent pastry out of the same sort of oven as produced the Restoration comedies...