Word: recommendable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philip Nolan was a shady horse dealer from Louisiana who was shot in 1801 by the Spaniards he had cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest...
...reduce his own net aggregate of Budget requests. The expected $418,000,000 deficit of fiscal 1938 was accounted for by a reduction of $387,000,000 in revenues and an increase of $31,000,000 in expenditures over those he calculated in January. Nor did he recommend any new taxes to help balance the Budget at present. Instead he promised merely that the Treasury would make tax recommendations before the next session of Congress...
...Arlie V. Bock, head of the Department, said yesterday that he was "disgusted" by the proceedings and that if the perpetrators were apprehended he would recommend their dismissal unless there were a number of extenuating circumstances in the case...
Last week it looked as if he might gain his ambiguous end when, after several days' conferences, he agreed with the Committee in Washington to create a joint committee of experts: 1) to study and recommend a program "for the adjustment of the Philippine national recovery," 2) to consider the economic merits of advancing the date of complete Philippine independence from...
...from Paris, Tex. to Pushmataha County, Ark. Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...