Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Result was that Alf Landon's telegram became necessary as an appendix to the platform. To the platform's declaration that sweatshops and child labor can be abolished, that minimum wages and the like for women and children can be established by State law "within the Constitution as it now stands," he added: "But if that opinion should prove to be erroneous . . . I shall favor a constitutional amendment. . . ." To the declaration for a "sound currency" he added "convertible into gold . . . [but not] unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic economy." To the declaration for extension...
...Knox College and the University of Missouri, collected the money, sent it to Heafford Junction an hour before Mrs. Field was to lose her home. Murmured tired old Mrs. Field: "So they've not forgotten us after all. I am very happy now." A London surgeon removed the appendix of Authoress Elinor ("It") Glyn, reported she was "doing as well as could be expected." Now in, her mid-sixties, Authoress Glyn will not tell her exact age. Planning a return to the stage, blonde, pouting, oldtime Cinemactress Mae Murray, whose figure remains slim despite her 47 years, called...
...trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
During this year Dr. Bock has instituted the policy of moving any serious cases into Boston hospitals. When this is done, the expenses for two weeks of ward care are paid by the Department. This winter 12 men have had appendix operations in the system and have not been required to pay more than a small fee for operating room expenses, and other cases have been treated free in metropolitan hospitals, through application of special funds...
...year-end review Editor Munger had a stock-market chart for 1935 with major movements explained by cartoons of Chief Justice Hughes, the Blue Eagle exploding, Haile Selassie with shield and spear, etc. Most exciting moment in Editor Munger's journalistic career occurred in 1934 when his appendix burst while he was writing the story of a proxy fight to oust Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery...