Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...political friends there in a major matter of patronage. Charles Henry Tuttle had resigned as the U. S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) last September to run vainly for governor. Old Guardsmen led by hard-boiled Congressman Snell demanded the appointment of Keyes Winter, wheelhorse politician, as the Tuttle successor. The President's friends like Congresswoman Pratt and William Hill wanted Alan Fox, good 1928 Hooverizer, to get the job. Last week Mr. Snell brought into the Old Guard's insistence a threat of legislative warfare against the White House...
...transferring the loss from the farmers to all the taxpayers. To limit production in future, the Board has for months been urging, begging, warning U. S. farmers to plant less wheat, at least 15% less. Last week the Department of Agriculture reported a 1.1% acreage reduction in 1931 winter wheat. Meantime, the new Canadian crop is reported about 30% bigger than last year...
...reported inability of the President to secure within his own party a suitable leader to head the Senate fight for the World Court protocols this winter is both disgraceful and significant. . . . The friends of the World Court and of world peace have been too patient. . . . The World Court issue . . . will continue to block action until settled. But with such divided counsels among its leaders, can any one doubt that the Republican party is riding to a fall...
...Winter weather caused the Artiglio to suspend operations on the Egypt until next summer. The salvage ship went south to Belle He, was working last week in an attempt to destroy the week of the Florence H., a Wartime U. S. freighter named for the wife of U. S. Shipping Board Chairman Edward Nash Hurley. The Florence H. sank in 1918 with a cargo of 5,000 tons of guncotton and steel, remained till last week a menace to French coastal navigation. So spectacular have been the Artiglio's successes that a French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing...
...Next month E. A. T. will open in time for the winter trade its passenger service to Miami, there to connect with Pan American Airways' lines to Cuba, Porto Rico, Central and South America...