Word: soils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What did New York's Governor think about agriculture? He said: " . . . The promotion of the interests of those who till the soil is certainly of vital concern. . . . Both national and state policies should be moulded to insure equality of opportunity and reward between those groups which produce the food and those which consume...
...missing a skein of telegraph wires, touches and runs almost to the field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
...possible treaty of friendship with France: "Such an undertaking . . . could not be based solely on literary and sentimental reasons but must rest on the elimination . . . of reason for friction between the two countries." In the past such friction has been chiefly fomented by journalists on French and Italian soil. There remain, however, certain definite clashes of interest-such as those between the French and Italian spheres in North Africa...
Detroit's chances were destroyed by a characteristic chirrup from Senator Moses of New Hampshire. With an eye cocked at wet Ontario across the river from Detroit, Senator Moses said: "It would be the first time anyone was ever nominated for President on foreign soil...
...search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered across the world. It is the duty of the government and of the police to prevent these paintings from getting out of the country. No government should tolerate on its soil for more than twenty-four hours an individual of this kind...