Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be "the last stand of Capital-ism." The country, he believes, is ripe for a dictatorship, with the mass of people stunned into inaction by the Depression. All that is lacking is the dictator himself. The Bonus Expeditionary Force encamped at the capital, he once thought, offered fertile soil for such a backward movement but its leaders did not measure up to the political opportunity. "If the country wasn't so sprawling." declared Socialist Thomas, "a man like Senator Huey Long might seize demagogic control...
Sentiment is after all the chief tie which still unites the nations of the British Commonwealth. Soon after he stepped upon Canadian soil Lord Bessborough struck the note that must and will be sounded again & again during the Imperial Economic Conference. "I feel," said His Excellency, "that our interests are being more closely linked day by day." This sentiment may surmount Irish hatred, Indian passive resistance and Dutch-begotten South African suspicion of the Mother Country...
...Jones of the House Agriculture Committee declared: "Secretary Hyde understands more about politics than he does about agriculture. . . . 'Farmer' Hyde has an apparent idea that reforestation consists of going to a nursery, buying a seedling and planting it. He overlooks entirely the great problems of flood control . . . soil erosion . . . preparation of the soil . . . drainage." The American Forestry Association rebuked Secretary Hyde for viewing reforestation "in the narrow sense of merely planting trees...
...political convention in the U. S. is a vast vegetative process by which man in the mass distills out of himself that which he calls Leadership, the quality of the result depending upon many preceding months of social and economic weather, upon the current fertility or poverty of the soil that is the mass mind...
...Cornell University Dr. Jacobus Christian Faure announced that the same influence that turns a group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They became more active. Their body heat rose. Their appetites increased. In successive molts they continued to change color until all were black-&-yellow-the age-old color of plague locusts. No longer were...