Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fanatical militarists of Japan's Fighting Services and whether or not a secret treaty of military alliance has been signed with Germany, these swashbucklers were set to risk a great war between Japan and Russia. This week Japanese vote in a general election for a new Diet or Lower House, but Tokyo wiseacres agreed last week that no matter how the popular vote distributes itself among Japan's civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States...
...winning time, established by Jarvis of the Newport Ski Club, was two minutes, 45 seconds. Carpenter's tenth place time was three minutes, ten seconds, which would have been considerably lower if conditions had been more favorable...
...Florida south of the canal, arises: What is to prevent the canal from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water except in wells close to the canal. Florida's state geologist declared that he could not see why the effects would be limited to areas close to the canal. In places the fresh water had in late years already shown signs of failing and salt water was taking...
...Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that appear to be practically insurmountable, it would inevitably drain enormous quantities of water from the limestone, would lower the water level...
Last week Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled that anyone may name a cigar after the President, use his picture on the box. Reversing a lower court ruling by which a Milwaukee manufacturer had been enjoined from producing a "Franklin D. Roosevelt" cigar because another firm had got one on the market ahead of him, Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry declared: "The fact that it is in poor taste and shocks our sense of propriety . . . does not make it illegal or unlawful...