Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PENNSYLVANIA :Governor Smith of New York flatly declined to comply with Governor Pinchot's request that New York drop her suit to take control of Niagara Falls from the Federal Government and give it to the state. Governor Smith urged that states must fight "growing Federal encroachment...
PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Pinchot wrote to Governor Smith of New York, asking that the suit before the United States Supreme Court to annul the Federal Water Power Law be withdrawn. New York wants a monopoly on the water power developed within its boundaries (notably at Niagara Falls). Governor Pinchot suggests that Pennsylvania and other states have their quota of the Niagara power...
...however, Robert Frost was living in Massachusetts, and it is with the New England states that he is firmly associated. He left Dartmouth after a short try as an undergraduate. He studied only fitfully at Harvard. Occasionally he has attempted to teach; but academic restrictions do not suit this lover of hard truths and of open fields. If he could do exactly as he chose, I imagine that one would find him at any time of year on that rise in the road near South Shaftsbury, sitting on the back porch by the fountain, surrounded by his wife...
...stool, an alarm-clock, a cat, and a cuspidor, does not inspire an ambitious man with optimism. "Cabbages and Kings" present a consular paradise which might appeal to some; but at present, none can afford to enter the foreign service without private means. Adventure, travel and hard work may suit a young man for a short time, but unless more material incentives are provided, a permanent, expert staff cannot be maintained...
...mustard gas and Lewisite which are toxic poisons to anything that they touch," added Captain Phillips, "the only protection is a suit, similar to oilskins, that covers the whole body but which so hampers a man as to make him unfit for actual combat...