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Republican Wood conceded that this sum was $208,692,465.12 more than the 70th Congress had appropriated for the last fiscal year, but argued that the in- creases were all for worthy causes. Major increases over 1930: Farm relief, $101,900,000; rivers & harbors, $21,600,000; public buildings, $20,000,000; Boulder Dam, $10,660,000; public roads, $37,400,-ooo. Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide...
...went citizens of high and low degree: clumpy immigrant folk, soiled and happy children, dowagers in their motors. They were all going to Hull-House to celebrate what Founder Jane Addams called the institution's "twice twentieth anniversary" (actually the 41st) and also to signalize Founder Addams' 70th year...
...Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, hazarded on the occasion of his 70th birthday last month, that "he might not have been discovered if he hadn't looked like Groucho Marx...
Pedagogs and libertarians join this week celebrating the 70th birthday of Columbia University's shaggy John Dewey, pedagog, libertarian, "greatest living U. S. philosopher." Philosopher Dewey celebrated the coming event himself by marching last week, as chairman of a new league for independent political action, to a radio microphone to broadcast his indictment of U. S. politics. His phrases sounded earnest but threadbare. Excerpt...
Dewey. "Greatest U. S. philosopher," exponent of what he calls "empirical naturalism or naturalistic empiricism," Columbia University's Professor John Dewey was voted a life membership in the association, to be conferred on the occasion of his 70th birthday...