Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided for, so in this case these little animals should be compensated." Mr. Pallotti's reward...
...refused to comment about Plan E and about the campaign promise of Al Maguire '40, a candidate in ward 7, to have the proposal for city manager placed on the ballots in the 1940 state election...
Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...
...Consul General William M. Cramp remained in Warsaw as he had in Addis Ababa three years ago, when he and his assistants turned away Ethiopian marauders with machine-gun fire, saving U. S. lives and State documents. When the Nazis besieged Warsaw, 136 U. S. citizens of Polish extraction took refuge at the embassy. Asked how long he would stay, Consul General Cramp replied: "Until 136 U. S. citizens are able to leave Warsaw...
Probably the most wonderful thing in the world, to Coffin, is his being alive in his native State of Maine. There he summers on either of two farms, coastal or freshwater, winters as an English professor at Bowdoin in Brunswick. In all his books Coffin tries to bear witness that poetry, or at least his kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under...