Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected appointment but unsensational. It was so purely personal and political, that it was uninteresting. Yet it seemed adequate. President Coolidge himself had pointed out that the Department of the Interior is so well staffed and organized that it scarcely would need a chief to replace Dr. Hubert Work for the balance of the Coolidge administration...
...eyebrows among political commentators, a general lowering of mouth-corners by local G. 0. P. bosses. Some $5,300,000 was recorded in the Harding-Coolidge campaign and more than $3,000,000 in the Coolidge-Dawes. This year, Chairman Work said, "We have candidates who will not need so large a sum." It sounded admirable, but a revised estimate was not unexpected...
While in camp, reserve officers are on active duty. They draw Government pay. They may be ordered on active duty by the President at any time for any period, but need not remain for more than 15 days in any one calendar year unless Congress has declared a national emergency. Reserve officers must buy their own uniforms and insignia and keep them ready for active duty. Uniforms may be worn by reservists not on active duty while in the U. S., on specified occasions (social functions, military ceremonies, instructing at schools and the like...
Fascist Mussolini seemingly did not conceive that his ardent words could give offense; but Anti-Fascist Birkenhead, conscious that his icy logic must have offended, threw a concluding sop to women: "Though a woman may not take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled...
...phosphorus treatment is only one phase of the larger question of plant requirements. Plant Physiologist Gericke suspects that plants, like people, take more food than they need for growth. He has therefore, experimented with balanced rations, which led to a method of growing floral plants in water solutions containing only the essential growth elements. He has also developed a method of growing young tomato plants in cold frames; feeding them special fertilizers; producing a greater crop than the untreated controls...