Word: adds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith regime. Governor Smith was presently to submit to the Legislature his state's first Executive Budget, certifying the state's needs "in the order of their importance" as determined by a special bureau. The Legislature had power to reduce, but not increase items, and to add items subject to the Governor's veto...
...What can I tell you that is not 'an old story', as I call it? There is little that I can add to my series of articles on 'The College Undergraduate as I Know Him' which you must have followed in 'I Confess...
...debit side may be listed: superabundance in cobbles in the streets, newsboys with Back Bay accents. Dudley Street surface cars, Friday afternoon audiences at the Symphony, the South Station, Mechanics Hall, old Boston ladies, old Boston gentlemen, hot weather, cold weather, and a tendency towards pompousness. One may add that there are also other debits. But after the assets are balanced with the liabilities . . . one has . . . one has a collection of opinions and sentiments...
Several of our good friends have called our attention to TIME of Nov. 28, "On Trains, and made the suggestion that we should add to your paragraph that the "North Coast Limited," Chicago-Seattle flyer, on the Northern Pacific, had a women's lounge and smoking compartment with long sofa and dressing tables, bath, manicure, maid, etc., added to its new equipment in March...
...nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed a university, why such a university deserved strong financial support. After listening to Dr. Goodspeed, Mr. Rockefeller said that he would contribute $600,000 if other persons would add $400,000 to his gift. Dr. Goodspeed then organized cooperation, collected $400,000 more. With this the new University of Chicago was established; Dr. Goodspeed was made secretary of the board of trustees, then registrar, then corresponding secretary. Dr. Goodspeed wrote three books about his college. When he died last...