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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read in TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...
Some three months ago complaints of Walter Reed patients reached the ears of Senator David Aiken Reed, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee (no kin of the late Major Reed). The complaints were: insufficient food of poor quality, "wormy" fruit, no milk to drink, squelching of patient criticism...
...Parliament were granted a salary of ?400 ($2,000).† In the Conservative government of Stanley Baldwin., largely a government of Gentlemen, the question of cabinet salaries was not important. To the Labor government of Ramsay MacDonald it is most important indeed. When they were in power five years ago, the Labor ministers pooled their salaries to help out the most needy among them. And last week Prime Minister MacDonald, whose first London job, at 19, earned him $2.40 a week for addressing envelopes for a bicycle touring club, announced in the Commons, in his capacity as First Lord...
Only one year ago, sad Amanullah had ten thousand times $30, dozens of suits of clothes. Touring Europe he rode with Kings, witnessed sham battles, inspected shops in each country he visited, blithely accepted magnificent gifts bestowed in the hope that he would make even more magnificent purchases...
Daughter of pioneer Nebraskans, President Pyrtle is principal of the Bancroft School, Lincoln, Neb. A few years ago she took out a homestead on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in North Dakota, uses the money realized from the sale of corn crops to buy railroad tickets to educational conventions...