Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate old General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer cried, quivering with emotion: "I cannot vote this bill!-considering that a fortnight ago we refused to pay America, and yet American soldiers fought admirably to defend our soil, as I can testify!" Unmoved, the Senate voted the Austrian loan 14440-68, after which Chamber & Senate adjourned...
...question of freedom of teaching is one rooted in every soil. Tennessee is concerned: so, recently, was New York. In Professor Irving Babbitt's essay on "Academic Leisure" still an other more indirect please of the subject is lighted up. In mentioning words of such universal importance. President Butler assumed a responsibility to contribute something to one side of the other. As he remarks. "Universities are from time to time denounced as nurseries of revolution by these who are quite unable to comprehend what freedom to seek the truth really means and involves." He proceeds to defend the implications...
...basis of 1830 methods, six million men would have been needed to cultivate the soil for the 1929 U. S. wheat crop. With the best existent equipment 4,000 men could have planted the whole crop...
...calling on Sundays. Politician Rainey- With his shock of white hair, his fine head, his ruddy complexion, his Windsor tie, his heavy crooked pipe Representative Rainey might well be taken for a great British statesman. Yet in political mind and manner he is bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel...
Both delicate and practical in its requirements for native citizenship, the U. S. Government ignores the place of conception, demands only birth on U. S. soil* Well beyond it went the American Kennel Club, meeting last week in Manhattan, in revising qualifications for the ''American-bred" dogs. Under present regulations the pup has only to be born in the U. S. of a dam U. S.-owned at the time of her mating. Many a U. S. fancier buys a bitch in Europe, breeds her there, takes her home before her time (63 days). "After Feb. 7, ruled...