Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as we hold all the land between the railways the Japanese can get no taxes, no food supplies, no minerals, no cotton. They will have no profit to show for their expensive conquest...
...hook snapped off, but one of the fish (a 100-pounder) became so entangled in Angler Roosevelt's wire leader that the President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored...
...Puerto Rico was shifted from the War to the Interior Department four years ago. It was a statute, incorporated by Congress in the Island's first Organic Act (dating from the trust-fearing days of 1900) and reincorporated in the present Organic Act (1917), limiting the amount of land any corporation could own for agricultural purposes to 500 acres. Crusty Mr. Ickes well knew that few of Puerto Rico's sugar companies own less than 500 acres. He demanded that island authorities enforce this law. Last week the first attempt to enforce it landed in Puerto Rico...
Defendant in the test action was Rubert Hermanos, Inc., which owns 12,188 acres of sugar land and operates the Central San Vicente. Rubert Hermanos, Inc. maintained: 1) that it was engaged primarily in sugar manufacture rather than agriculture; 2) that the Government was estopped from withdrawing the Hermanos franchise because the law had been neglected so long. Down from the bench came a contrary opinion canceling the Hermanos franchise and imposing a fine of $3,000 (the statute violation is a civil, not criminal offense). As for Rubert Hermanos' contention, crackled Associate Justice Martin Travieso...
...rate, believe the plantation Negroes of Jamaica. British officials in Kingston last month had posters put up throughout the island saying that Queen Victoria never did anything of the kind, but the Negroes went on buying barbed wire to put round their little pieces of land. Last week the British colony, faced with the job of explaining that no plantations were going to be divided, were ready for trouble...