Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bicentennial Commission. Beside him marched beaming, grey-haired George Michael Cohan, famed flagwaving actor, producer and songwriter. After presenting Mr. Cohan to the President. Congressman Bloom elaborately explained that the author of "Over There" had composed a new song to be used officially by the commission for its nation-wide celebrations next year. Declared Mr. Cohan: "The name of my song, Mr. President, is 'Father of the Land We Love.' I wrote it for the American, people. Here, Mr. President, I want you to have the very first copy...
...solved by the voluntary co-operation of the bankers of the world rather than by the governments. The program supplements the suspension of intergovernmental debts. The combined effort should enable the German people to overcome temporary difficulties and restore their credit. The program contributes to expedite recovery from world-wide depression...
Beauharnois. The Committee had been investigating charges made last May by Alberta's M. P. Robert Gardiner regarding the relations of the Government to Beauharnois Power Co., of which Senator McDougald is board-chairman. In 1927 this company obtained permission from the Government to dredge a wide, 15 mi. canal, ostensibly as part of the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway, between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis on the St. Lawrence River, the immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower...
...Necklines higher and shoulders veering from square and narrow to wide and sloping...
Between transatlantic telephone calls (see p. 9), President Hoover told the convention (and the U. S. over a nation-wide hook-up): "Despite differences of language, tradition and custom, the youth of the world have found in the organization a common ground for spiritual training and service to their Church, community and country. . . . The best index to its purposes and values are the principles it stands for . . . International peace . . . sobriety . . . character . . . righteousness and respect for law." Spontaneously, as the President finished his speech, the convention jumped to its feet, burst into the Doxology: "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow...