Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August day in California when Herbert Hoover accepted the Republican presidential nomination, he proposed "an organized, searching investigation" of Prohibition. That promise ferried him safely across the campaign to election. Congress thought of his proposal as primarily a Prohibition survey when, last winter, it appropriated $250,000 for the expenses...
...Austria. At present professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...
...yachtsman, has made his last voyage on his huge, black-hulled Corsair. Last week the Corsair beat United Cigar Store Tycoon George J. Whalen's Warrior across the Atlantic. In Manhattan the Corsair's officers announced that she would be turned over to the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Mr. Morgan will not stop yachting. A two-million-dollar successor to the Corsair is being built in Bath...
There are, according to the Hoover Economic Survey (see p. 75) some 17 million U. S. citizens engaged in playing the Stock Market. Most of these investors are new, small, ignorant. They speculate to double their capital rather than invest to get a steady increase. They are motivated by faith...
...Adopted a resolution for a survey of Richmond, Va. battlefields. Received the tariff bill from the Ways & Means Committee: began debate upon...