Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...English Civil Wars of Seventeenth Century", Professor Whitney, Emerson...
...most constructive legislation that bears his name is the Air Commerce Act of 1926 which set up U. S. control over civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate...
Events: 1776, Declaration of Independence; 1787, framing of the Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1845, admission of Texas as a state; 1846, Oregon boundary settlement (U. S.-Canadian northwest border set at 49° north latitude); 1850, admission of California to the Union; 1865, end of Civil War; 1908, the Panama Canal...
...herring. Experience has shown that by this method they can demand and get higher prices than ever before. Jealously guarded are Iceland's lucrative fisheries. Day and night they are patrolled by the country's two icebreakers, the Thor and the Odin. Trespassing trawlers are hauled before a civil court, and up to the present time fines imposed on such fish poachers have sufficed to pay the expenses of the patrol...
Furthermore, Calhoun's doctrine was able to cause civil war only because the controversy involved was of such a nature thatit divided the nation along clearly-defined regional lines, presenting in this way two violently opposed geographical entities. The present controversy, while sentiment may prevail one way or the other in different regions, is not fundamentally sectional in origin, and scarcely can operate to cause any well defined rift in the union. Civil war under these conditions then must necessarily be nothing more, than anarchy and chaos, rather than any conflict between two well organized factions. It is absurd...