Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program proposing amendments to limit NRA to "what can be legally accomplished." The Weirton decision had cast grave doubt on the NRA's legal power to regulate intrastate industrial affairs simply by spicing the law with the "commerce clause" of the Constitution. With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce...
...reviewing Peck's Bad Boy, current cinema, TIME correctly describes Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) as "a juvenile sneak & pedant" (TIME, Oct. 15). Cousin Horace, arriving at the Peck household, is carrying a magazine. At several moments a familiar cover is plainly visible. TIME! A symbol of pedantry, no doubt...
...custom, two new human animals were crowned healthiest girl and boy: Doris Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...
Guest of the Society of Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
Recalled Miss Peck last week: "I was scared for the first time in my life. I said to myself. 'Accidents don't happen in my family,' and I went on down through the night." "This General business is not all that it is cracked up to be." concluded General Evangeline Cory Booth after her first six weeks as international autocrat of the Salvation Army...