Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the whole fiscal structure of Europe is based today upon the Dawes Plan, it is clear that the mightiest event which looms for 1929 is revision of the Dawes Plan, by the new Reparations Committee of Experts. Therefore the major international news of last week was comprised in the two following developments...
...Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison Rockefeller Jr., as the actual source of cash. Since several Baptist weeklies are appearing unmolested in Russia, the tirade of last week against "Rockefeller Bibles" seemed pointless, hysteric. Nonetheless it formed one of two major features in a new Soviet campaign to stamp out Religion, a thing so detested by the late founder of the Soviet State, LENIN, that he caused to be displayed in Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE The second feature of last week...
...Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later a swinging rope conveyed zinc oxide, balm for the Major. Lieut. Quesada, recovered, idled in his berth, read a magazine. Other ropes were swung, provided oranges, oatmeal, coffee. The larder of the Question Mark...
...seventh day it rested. The Question Mark ended its airy sentence. After 150 hours. 40 minutes, 16 seconds aloft, the plane came to earth. Out of the fuselage stumbled the crew, shouting greetings. For Lieutenant Quesada, a dish of ice cream; for Sergeant Hooe, a dress suit; for Major Spatz, a shave ; for them all and for the Question Mark there was the acclaim which they had won by keeping a seven days' vigil, so they might snatch from the clouds all existing records...
There is a vigorous discussion in Congress between these favoring the Method of Equal Proportions, which pats all the states on an equal footing, and those favoring an older method called the Method of Major Fractions, which gives a marked advantage to the larger states. For example, the 1920 population of North Carolina is 2,559,123 and of Vermont 352,428. Under the Method of Equal Proportions, North Carolina receives 10 and Vermont 2 representatives, and the "disparity" betwen the two states is 45 percent. Under the Method of Major Fractions, North Carolina receives 11 and Vermont 1 representatives...