Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pays off heavy political debts (even more liberally than the Post Office) with assistant attorney generalships, U. S. judgeships,- district attorneyships. 2) It advises Congress on the constitutionality of pending legislation and defends the constitutionality of that legislation when passed. 3) It enforces the laws of the land...
...Alaska was called "Seward's Folly" and "The Ice-Box of the North" because Secretary of State William Henry Seward bought the land from Russia for $7,200,000 (7? per acre) and everyone knew it was a wasteland of ice and snow, inhabited only by wolves and Eskimos...
...Poorly defended, underpopulated rich land such as Alaska is "a standing temptation" to overpopulated, resource-hungry militarized nations. Alaska is 54 miles by mainland from Siberia, eight miles away by the closest islands. The westmost end of the Aleutians is only 660 miles from Japan's eastmost naval base, Horomushiro, while Yokohama is 3,400 miles from fortified Honolulu...
...accuracy L. Frank Baum's original story (first published in 1900) that sold over a million copies, his stage adaptation that ran 18 months on Broadway with Fred Stone.* Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets blown away in a twister from her home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack Haley), a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). They too want to see the Wizard. The Straw...
...everything that was wrongheaded. Father and daughter argued without listening to each other. He said that once when he got hit on the head, after returning to New Orleans, he knew instantly he was in the South, like the shipwrecked sailor who knew he was in a Christian land as soon as he saw the gallows. Miss Ravenel would be embarrassed by such remarks in company: "Papa," she would say, "what a countrified habit you have of telling stories." "Don't criticise, my dear," the doctor would reply, "I am a high toned gentleman and always knock people...