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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation bill; eliminated (39-to-35) the $19,000,000 air mail subsidy, but did not (36-to-32) alter the $35,500,000 ocean mail subsidy; adopted (41-to-12) a "Buy American'' amendment, requiring the Government to use only U. S.-made supplies and equipment...
...public works they reclaim land in the West, construct power dams in the Midwest, build highways in the East. Army discipline jacks up the workers' morale. Family allowances deducted from their wages care for their wives and children. So successful is N. R. C. that its principles eventually alter the whole character of U. S. organized labor...
...within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind was Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. with 114. Third, with 110, was Oilman Doherty's alter ego and legal prime minister, William Alton ("Pete") Jones, tall, trim executive chairman of Henry L. Doherty & Co., who last fortnight was playing handsome host to distinguished guests at Mr. Doherty's newly acquired hotel properties in Miami...
...terms of the new gift provide that the officials may alter and expand the collection at their own discretion. This form of gift, which is none too usual, makes a living collection possible which will be susceptible of growth and modification, in short the most valuable and instructive kind of a public museum or an educational institution...
From his childhood up Theodore Bulpington had an imaginary alter ego which he called the Bulpington of Blup, a romantic dream-figure in which he increasingly took refuge from the drab reality of himself. Only child of a dilettante critic and an "advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic, late-1890-ish world, soon took on the protective coloration of his environment. When he met Professor Broxted's children, Teddy and Margaret, he became aware of Science. From then on it was one long discussion, foaming with excitable Wellsian phrases and figures of speech. The children grew...