Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the present situation in Congress is unique: for the first time, both the Senate and the House have agreed to measures tentatively taking top-ranking postmasters out of the reach of patronage-hungry congressmen. What will emerge from the conference is hard to predict, for while the Ramspeck bill which has passed the House would give the postmasters life tenure, the Senate version provides for only an eight year term, and while the former would life the burden of senatorial confirmation, the latter retains this, the "good old way" of patronage appointments. Both bills would be an improvement over...
TIME, March 21 ... "The California Supreme Court handed down a verdict. . . ." Ho! Ho! Only juries arrive at verdicts. Supreme courts reach decisions, then affirm, modify or reverse judgments of inferior courts, except in such cases in which they have original jurisdiction; utilize juries at no stage in their procedure and at no time "hand down verdicts." IRVING HILL Editor...
Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...
...Frederick Hausen Lund of Temple University announced that he had tried ESP experiments under rigid control (cards beyond reach and out of sight) on 596 students, found no instance of significantly high scoring...
...Yearling tells the story of one year in the life of a towheaded, lively 12-year-old named Jody Baxter. The Baxter clearing is even more remote than that of most crackers, but in his own eyes Jody lives an eventful life. There is no school within reach. His days are spent mostly roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River...