Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearest parallel to such an investigation as Representative Dickstein is about to launch against a friendly power occurred in 1911. Outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement. President Taft, realizing that there was ammunition for a serious diplomatic explosion, intervened before the bill reached the Senate. Secretary of State Knox announced that the treaty was being abrogated in accordance with its own terms...
...such a boisterously ironic tone, well calculated to soothe skeptics into pleased attention, does "Unofficial Observer" launch his Who's Who of the New Deal. Plain citizens will be impressed by his breezy air of impartiality and impatient candor. But this hard-boiled patter thinly cloaks an earnest enthusiasm for the Administration and most of its works. More effective as propaganda for the New Deal than would be the paean of a paid publicity man, The New Dealers well deserves the Order of the Blue Eagle, first class...
...trips throughout the nation long ago convinced him that the U. S. was recklessly wasting its wildlife resources. Barren lands, starving ducks, hoggish gunners began to appear in his cartoons. He joined Iowa's Fish & Game Commission, became president of its Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop it. At a rough & tumble hearing in Washington last autumn "Ding's" tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against...
...legislation that will be asked will not be complicated. The initial capital for the enterprise may be supplied by the R. F. C., though Congress may not be adverse to making a direct appropriation. It is not believed that more than $500,000,000 will be needed to launch the enterprise and provision doubtless will be made for the sale of such capital to the banks in much the same manner as arranged when the Federal Reserve system was established...
...race. Lolloping comfortably in the shallow water of the inlet, a porpoise received an appalling thump. It came from the bow of Ellsworth's boat, this time ahead of the others and traveling at nearly 60 m.p.h. The boat leaped into, the air and an official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...