Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electrical Power Regulation. "The Federal Power Commission is now composed of three Cabinet officers. . . . I recommend that authority be given for the appointment of full-time commissioners to replace them. . . . The authority of the commission should be extended to certain phases of power regulation. About 90% of all power generation...
¶ It cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through...
A worm as slim as a horse hair has sewn a cloak of fear about the misshapen Negroes of St. Kitt's (St. Christopher Island, among the British West Indies), and patched it with deaths. Over the 65 square miles of the island grief croons. Trading ships scurry from...
Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint...
In squirming awe the Solicitors Apprentices of Dublin sat on hard benches for 75 minutes last week, heard all about "Americans" from Honorable Hugh Kennedy, First Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. Mr. Kennedy lately toured the U. S. as the guest of the American Bar Association, indulging simultaneously...