Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues. The postal deficit was 60 millions greater than expected. Flood control added 16 millions, public buildings 26 millions, pension increases n millions, increased pay for Federal employes 21 millions, Navy and Shipping Board increases 26 millions...
...Government's running expenses are, in general, on the increase. The Budget Bureau keeps its aggregate down by paring and balancing. Thus, the Radio Commission was allotted $200,000 less in the 1930 Budget than has already been appropriated for 1929. The Federal Reserve Board gets cut $95,000. The American Battle Monuments Commission will get $100,000 less. Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission $300,000 less. An increase of 36 millions deemed necessary for the War Department will be partially offset by cutting down the -Navy Department's allotment by 16 millions. President Coolidge pointed out that...
...step taken last week was the indictment, by the Federal Grand Jury in Buffalo of 30 Canadian distillers and their agents, including Board-Chairman Harry C. Hatch of the Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts distillery, Canada's largest. The offense charged: conspiracy-to-smuggle. The significance: none, unless Distiller Hatch & friends set foot in the U. S. Under the present treaty they cannot be extradited...
...pleased to declare that having been stricken by illness he was unable for the time being to give due attention to affairs of the realm whereupon the draft of a commission . . . for the transaction of matters and things on behalf of His Majesty was this day read at the board and approved and His Majesty was further pleased to nominate Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; the most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England; the Right Hon. Douglas McGarel...
...World. In 1883, Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World, for $346,000. In 1903, he was able to establish the Joseph Pulitzer Fund of some $2,000,000 for the endowment of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. In late autumn of 1911 he died, peacefully, on board his yacht Liberty bound south for a leisurely cruise. With William Randolph Hearst he was one of the two most influential figures in U. S. journalism...