Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons. They were still more chagrined when Congress, after upping the quota of mainland beet-sugar producers 100,000 tons above the President's request, left the quota for Hawaii to be fixed by Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell. In proportioning quotas between Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines, Brain Truster Tugwell used the average crops of 1931-32-33 as figures for the other islands, but based Hawaii's quota on the years 1930-31-32, to Hawaii's disadvantage. Result: Hawaii's quota was set at 917,000 tons instead of at least...
...these the Foster story is by no means the dearest. That story concerns Louis Philippe, King of France and his gifts to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown. Rich indeed were Louis Philippe's gifts, if indeed he gave Bardstown a Murillo Virgin, three van Dycks, two van Eycks, a Rubens. If the collection is authentic, it would easily fetch...
...discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...
...Paul Martin Pearson, onetime professor of oratory, founder of the Swarthmore Chautauqua, father of Newshawk Drew Pearson Washington Merry-Go-Round. A kind and visionary old gentleman, Mr. Pearson became the first civil governor of the islands three years ago. The hard economic facts among the 22,000 Virgin islanders (93% Negro...
...tootle expertly on his saxophone the frivolous ditty which goes : England's virgin Queen was Bess, I'll be virgin King, I guess, And the greatest sport in England...