Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alaskans expect much from Secretary Hoover, who was very eagerly received everywhere he went. He has a tentative plan for the appointment of resident secretaries of each Department of the Cabinet to handle Alaskan affairs on the spot (TIME, July 23). He is also expected to recommend to the President the creation of a fish preserve in southeastern Alaska, where otherwise the salmon fisheries, the chief industry of the Territory, will soon be destroyed by the extinction of the fish...
...form of protest, the stockmen blew up 48 vats in Amite County, Miss., during the past few weeks. As a counterprotest the Bureau sent armed guards, and finally machine guns, to the spot. The only casualty so far was the killing of one cattleman as he was about to dynamite one of the vats. The Department of Agriculture is determined to bring about safe and sane cattle-raising, even at the point...
Secretary Hoover proposed a plan to appoint additional Assistant Secretaries of various departments, who would reside in Alaska and take care of its problems on the spot. Many Alaskans look upon this proposal with suspicion, however, on the grounds that it would tend to bureaucracy, of which the Territory has already had too much. In brief, no cure-alls have been discovered to date...
...Virginia and the New Jersey, 17-year-old greybeards of the navy, will bear the brunt of the experiment. During the last two weeks of August the vessels will be taken out, off the Virginia Capes, and army aviators from Langley Field will do their best to make that spot the graveyard...
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor, is completing a heroic group of Adam and Eve for a secluded spot in John D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. The figure of Adam is 25 feet high, and the two are said to have been cut from the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought to America. The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture...