Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...district attorney in Manhattan from 1927 until last month when he resigned to become Republican candidate for Governor of New York (TIME, Oct. 6). Until his appointment as district attorney his interest in narcotics was remote. His job gave him two particular chores - prosecution of narcotic law infractions, survey of the narcotic situation in New York City in behalf of the National Crime Commission...
Your quiet, businesslike survey and summary of the "Effects of a Groundswell" is one of the best pieces of journalism I have ever seen (TIME, Sept. 29). I congratulate you for putting (as usual) your finger upon the crucial point in the Wet-Dry excitement. Someone once said: "Congress is always ten years behind public opinion." Yet nothing can be done about anything in this country before public attention is focused upon Congress to make it become selfconscious. . . . If the above aphorism is still accurate, you may have five or six more opportunities to chart the progress of the "Groundswell...
Some 800,000 acres of shale oil land in western Colorado, owned by all the U. S. people and said by the U. S. Geological Survey to contain 40 billion barrels of petroleum (value: $1 per barrel, minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great...
...declared President Hoover last week to members of his Home Building & Home Ownership Conference as he officially started them on a survey of the National Housing situation. The President's chief aim: easier credit for home purchasers. ¶To the White House with many another oldster learning to read and write went M. S. Gains, 72, of Apison, Tenn. He presented President Hoover with a basket of sweet potatoes, declared afterwards: "And I whispered to him that come frosty weather, I'd send him a 'possum to go with 'em. And that pleased...
...McClure's until Hearst scrapped it two years ago. He replaces Henry F. Pringle, leaving to finish his biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Be- fore vacating his office, Editor Pringle saw published in Outlook the first instalment of his most recent notable acquisition, a well-documented, impartial survey of Prohibition by Author Charles Merz (The Great American Bandwagon, And Then Came Ford), able understudy of the New York World's Editor Walter Lippmann...