Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President told Congress that the Government's real-estate holdings (parks, forests, grazing lands) which constitute one-fifth of all the land in U. S., and were exempted from over $91,000,000 in taxes in 1937, would henceforth be supervised by a nine-man interdepartmental board...
...come to the defense of Union Village. The Governor had a letter from Secretary of War Woodring directing that work begin on a Federal flood control dam on the Ompompanoosuc River before a contract had been made compensating Union Village and other towns for the loss of taxes on land condemned by the U. S. for the dam site...
...only thing we have to fear is Fear" speech of March 1933. After the November elections had showed Mr. Roosevelt's political stock at a six-year low, last week's speech seized and dramatized the issue on which Mr. Roosevelt's personal popularity in the land was already sharply reviving: the U. S. v. Dictatorship...
From Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...
...visiting lecturer at the University since 1934, Salvemini taught in Italy before Mussolini's rise to power forced the outspoken critic of Fascism to flee his native land...