Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Hoover received and turned over to the Press another report from his National Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, which has sunk into anticlimactic obscurity since it dealt with Prohibition. Its findings dealt with prosecutions. As all the world knows it discovered an evil link between criminal organizations and local politics. Declared the report: "In some cases campaign funds are derived from what amounts to licensed violations of the law." It found that the grand jury had ceased to be an agency for real criminal investigation, advised that it be done away with as a source of indictments...
Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste...
...increase confidence in the sunk but slowly rising Spanish peseta† Provisional President Alcala Zamora declared: "I have not a large fortune, but what I have I have now transferred from France to Spain, from francs into pesetas...
...Bishop's contemplation of the weather was interrupted by a crash as the Livonia struck a shoal. Soon a heavy squall smote the stranded ship. The Bishop hurriedly launched his lifeboats, took all hands aboard, rowed for tiny, deserted Plana Cay. In ten minutes the Livonia had sunk...
...make the world safe for democracy" Why should a memorial be dedicated to men who fought against these principles and contrary to the will of God (as expounded in all good American chapels and churches)? Certainly the people of this country can not have sunk so low in these last ten years as to feel that there is the least shadow of doubt as to who started the war and who was right. After all, this memorial is to be raised as much in memory of the spirit and righteousness of the war as to the memory of those...