Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like all such maneuvers, the Battle of Rancocas Creek, observers agreed, will be detailed to Congress next winter as an argument to show the need for increased appropriations for national defense...
...Conference smothered the controversy, adopted no resolution at all. But as the discussions passed on to other topics, the Governor of North Carolina, talking on special treatment for youthful criminals, found opportunity to show himself more subtle than his thunderous neighbor, with this allusion: "The tendency of American reformers is almost never to teach, to educate public opinion, to convince gradually the citizenry of the value of reform, but is to secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments...
...names of Democratic Senators who had appealed to it for higher tariff rates under the law's flexible, clause for commodities of, local interest to them. It was said that President Hoover was going to use this information to combat the Democratic attack upon tariff flexibility, to show that many a Democrat had covertly sought to use this very machinery to get higher rates for special commodities. Mississippi's Senator Harrison shouted that neither he nor any other Democrat would thus be "bludgeoned or browbeaten" by the White House...
...London show is remarkable for its great number of light planes. The transport and military planes there seem entered only as samples of what is being accomplished in aviation. The small planes are dressed up to stimulate sales. Many are being bought at sight. The Exhibition is a sales opportunity which U. S. manufacturers seem to have foregone. The only U. S. plane on show was a trimotored Ford...
...scarce grew water throughout the English midlands that numerous water-hogging textile mills were forced to shut down for one week provisionally. In London, the Ministry of Health, after advising municipalities to ration their water with "rigid economy," concluded cryptically: "Statistics appear to show that the rainfall in England during the next few years may continue below average...