Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which...
...raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever...
Smart is the publication which can get the public to pay its promotion bills. Life did it last spring by "sponsoring" a campaign against Prohibition. Popular subscriptions brought in some $19,000 to pay for full-page advertisements in 23 newspapers (TIME, March 24). Last week World's Work tried a plan similar to Life's but somewhat more amorphous: it "sponsored" an expression of "confidence" in and "deep gratitude" to President Hoover -a "unified and dramatic expression on the part of the nation's leaders." Over 5,000 letters signed by Editor Russell Doubleday were sent...
...plan was to be kept "confidential" until time to spring it on the President as a New Year's surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
...concert in the Hingham High School. The soloists of the evening will be H. M. Abel '30, Max well Arkusch '31, A. F. Bixby '31, Harold Schmidt '32, and F. M. Watkins '30. The program will be as follows: Jerusalem Sir C. H. H. Parry Inimiei Autem C. Lassus Spring Returns Marenzio Turn Ye to Me Scottish Folk Song Marching Brahms Pinafore A. Sullivan (Intermission) Gondoliers A. Sullivan Adoramus To G. P. Palestrina Salamalaikum P. Cornelius April is in My Mistress' Face T. Merley Hundred Pipers Scottish Folk Song Jesu Joy Bach Coronation Scene M. P. Moussorgeky