Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Work Relief Division's cartographic project, which he heads, was employing 200 men at a cost of $290,000 per year. About 70% of his maps, models and charts, testified Professor Kraemer, were modern relief maps, including some of New York City & vicinity which would be useful in regional planning. The Committee's counsel called a list of the other 30%. They included the Geographic Distribution of Ancient Greek Dialects, an Isothermic Map of the Mediterranean Region, a Profile of the Excavations at Kish, Early Bronze Age Intercourse, a Genealogy of the Julian-Claudian Line, the Roman Coinage...
...know," confided busy Governor Landon, "is that a great many Republicans of the region have a lot of ideas." So had a great many Republicans in Washington...
...Watchdogs Hitchner & Ellis sniff out academic extravagance, then send pamphlets about it to Illinois newspapers and taxpayers. Recently they pounced upon Professor Alvin Robert Cahn of the Zoology Department, told how he spent the summer of 1932 in northern Minnesota investigating a tick which infested the moose of that region. Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis scornfully "estimated" that "this louse hunter" spent $12,000 of Illinois money in the interests of Minnesota moose...
...accomplish this end, a defensive naval alliances with Great Britain could be negotiated. The joint navies would join in a treaty for ten years in defense of the territorial possessions of the contracting powers in the region of the Pacific against infraction of the Kellogg Peace Pact...
...While the apparent principle advocated in Palestine has been one of self-government, because of Zionist pressure, no real sort of self-government or representation has been offered the natives. In regard to immigration, the English government announced that the influx of foreign elements into the region would be limited to the economic capacity of the country. They have not investigated the economic capacity of the country. The result of the influx has been poverty and unemployment...