Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first official conference, Secretary Hyde said: "Don't try to make me a dirt farmer because I am not. I'm a lawyer. It's supposed to be good politics to claim to be a farmer but farmers don't want to be fooled that...
...Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern rode up out of her "grave." Elated naval officers said the experiment was important because: 1) Never before had a submarine been thus raised by air in the open sea; 2) never before had a submarine so large as the V-4 been brought to the surface by independent means...
...fractious a subject was sugar that the Committee agreed to give additional public hearings on the Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial...
...this U. S. request with a counter-proposition: "If the U. S. will insist upon clearance for their own boats to enable them to check and control their own people, the Canadian Government is quite ready to consider any further reasonable measure of co-operation with them." Minister Euler said two other things that tended to increase the heat in already superheated Washington: 1) "Practically 100% of the rum runners are American citizens who ply their trade in U. S. boats": 2) "Only 2% to 5% of the liquor in the U. S. comes from Canada." Commissioner of Prohibition James...
...violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the conditions of which they complain." Assistant Secretary Lowman in Washington failed to see it that way. Said he: "It makes no difference what [clearance] regulations you have, because bootleggers will not register their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws. For the Canadian Government to refuse clearance papers to liquor laden vessels...