Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate) plan. Careful not to blame Congress too early in the session and talking over its head to the lobbyists behind the legislators, President Hoover had "deplored" the dissension among the farmers themselves, urged them to compromise their differences. Senator McNary was blown around to President Hoover's view, but his committee voted eight to six to ignore the President's objections and argue out debentures in full senate. President Louis John Taber of the Grange, good Hoover friend though he was, said: "Our opinion as to the workability of the debenture plan has not been changed...
...highly reasonable position. "Certain proposals, for which I have made myself responsible, . . . have become the subject of an acute controversy on a stage much wider than that of the company itself. . . . Proposals . . . made with the sole object of increasing the prosperity of the company . . . prompted by my view that the preponderating interests in our great industry should always be in British hands. ... I have always held the view that our scheme did not prejudice property rights . . . any of our shareholders . . . nothing was further from my mind . . . my colleagues. . . . However, under all the circumstances . . . it has been decided not to proceed...
With the advent of Daylight Saving there commences a new era. Incidently perhaps, it is to herald this new era that Daylight Saving-a phrase which seems to illustrate how the economy of the government has penetrated even into the world of nature-was invented, in view of the deplorable scarcity of cuckoos that might take upon themselves the task of loudly singing "Summer is icumin in." However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles...
...great anniversary, the two hundredth year since the foundation of Harvard College.... The noble elm of Washington, the tree beneath which his tent was pitched in the revolutionary war, is waving quietly in the breeze not far from my window, the only object in the whole circle of my view which saw the infant day of Harvard...
...view of the disclosures of the political activities of the national light and power interests in other states, we have a right to inquire whether the same thing is going on here...