Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Can Co. goes much of the credit for converting what might have been a fad into a permanent national drink. It helped keep inferior grades off the market by demonstrating, even before 1929, that tomato juice must come only from the best tomatoes, could not be considered a mere byproduct. Today tomato juice canning is a highly specialized six-week business, running from August to October. Tomatoes are brought to the factory the day they are picked on the farm, usually no more than 75 miles away. The juice is forced under mechanical pressure through a fine screen...
...unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1934), cotton control bill (1934), raising the income tax (1934) A self-proclaimed reactionary, he suspects all New Deal legislation, believes the Democratic recovery program is composed of "mere relief measures." Legislative hobbies: As party whip he has found little time to pursue any personal legislative bent except public education. For years he was chairman of the Library Committee, which governs the Library of Congress. He fought the League of Nations in the stormy '20's, favored...
...life. Our literature is an isolated, extremely simple, cultural gymnastic. As Mr. Brooks points out a student in economics had but two choices of a career (though now he possesses an obvious third); he can remain and study more about economics and become more and more confined by mere terms, or he may go into business and forget all about his theoretical knowledge. It is possible that Mr. Tugwell, Mr. Warren, and the others are even now assisting America to come of age, but, at the moment, one still awaits that perfect fusion of theory and practice which...
...that it act as rapidly as possible on the 1925 Geneva convention which provides for supervision of the international munitions traffic by a system of licenses and quotas. He further expressed the hope that the Disarmament Conference will agree upon a "much more far-reaching" arms control than the mere supervision provided in the 1925 convention. In addition an emergency Administration resolution was introduced in the Senate authorizing the President to embargo the sale of U. S. arms and munitions in the Chaco conflict. A $10,000 fine or two years in jail was made the penalty for violating...
...mere fact of bringing in this bill will have a bad effect abroad. It will lead people in foreign countries to think that this country is menaced by the sort of movements that are going on on the Continent. That is quite untrue. Commander Locker-Lampson has done a great service to Sir Oswald Mosley by the mere fact that this bill was brought in and by the advertisement thus given him. . . . Bill Smith of England is a very different person from August Schmidt of Germany. He won't let anybody walk over him, either in peace...