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Onward he went with his good work. In 1929, the same year in which he married Florence Lincoln, wealthy divorced wife of William A. Rockefeller, he became, at the age of 36, president of his Institute. He launched still greater programs, teaching cotton mills to install accounting systems, to allot overhead costs, campaigning against night work for women and children. In May, 1933 Secretary Roper decorated his Institute with the annual Award of the American Trade Association Executives "for outstanding service to industry...
...Benjamin Harrison's time the Department of Interior began to allot farms to the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. To Jackson Barnett, for his very own, went 160 acres in eastern Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth...
...nine months brings forth an almost healthy baby. The facts which he has learned about, painting, sculpture, and architecture, make him amazingly precocious; he always impresses suitably his father's friends. But like most babies he is unable to sort out the facts which he has garnered and allot them their proper rank Possibly he is a bit superficial...
...Director Vidal got Civil Works Administration to allot $10,000,000 of which more than 80% will go for wages to 50,000 laborers. At an average cost of $5,000 each the landing fields will be unpretentious, unlighted, will consist in most cases simply of two landing strips 3,000 ft. by 300 ft. Municipalities will provide only the unimproved land, will loan road-building machinery if they have...
...editors of the CRIME modestly put forward a program by which the diplomats of Lehman Hall can rehabilitate themselves. According to Endicott, Emery, Inc., to keep the Library open at night would, deplete the coffers of the Harvard Square Landlords, and to allot a vacant lot for car parking would empty the money boxes of the Brattle Square Law Lords...