Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...songs. William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson deplored the sale of 3.2% beer. Bishop James Cannon Jr. was named to head the League's revived National Legislative Committee. Francis Scott McBride was once more elected General Superintendent. There were no new faces, no new ideas. The League, predicting the return of national Prohibition, reaffirmed its "historic program." In this atmosphere of standpattism, Homer Rodeheaver. the late Billy Sunday's song leader, was the life of the party. He had a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South clapping his hands and shouting approval when he intoned: Repeal has failed...
...imposed for revenue, but to do indirectly what the Government has no direct power to do, namely to regulate production. 3) Is the AAAct a constitutional exercise of Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce? The Government says it is because commerce goes to pot when farmers get no adequate return for their products. Hoosac Mills says it is not because the power to regulate interstate commerce does not include power to tax products that have not yet entered interstate commerce. With all this friendly but contradictory advice already before them in briefs, the nine Justices this week entered their courtroom...
...dramatic workshop came, like many another good thing, from Harvard University, our present facilities are incredibly poor. There is a striking need for the English Department again to provide itself with a real personality of the drama. When this bread is cast upon the waters, there will return such genuine love for the drama, that Harvard will build itself a college playhouse...
...Duke of Alba intimated to an American Scholar who visited him while travelling through Spain, that the government wished to have certain art objects of national importance returned, among which was the Fogg sarcophagus. In return, the Spanish government would give other works of art of equal intrinsic value. This plan, however, was purely unofficial, and before the Duke was able to accomplish anything more definite, his king had been overthrown by the revolution...
From the point of view of Harvard's new ambition to become a truly national institution, the ideal Prize Scholar, after four years in college filled with high scholarship, intellectual training, and also various, broadening, contact-giving outside activities, would return to his home state, become a great man, and be a standing example to Western youth of what that strange and foreign University of the East could provide to them...