Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Association of Manufacturers quickly wired its approval of the plan. "Called in to help," a representative of Carl Byoir & Associates, Manhattan pressagents, began to send out press releases from a Troy hotel suite. Meanwhile, the Taxcentinels set up a booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students...
Into the offices of Maryland's State Unemployment Service in Baltimore walked Nettie Mudd Monroe, widowed daughter of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the mild country doctor who set the leg of Assassin John Wilkes Booth the morning after Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, and who for his apparently innocent treatment languished four years in Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas off Florida. Purpose of Daughter Nettie's visit: to apply for an accountant's job, so that she might earn $200, enough to finish research for an authentic Civil War romance. Asked about her father, she answered: "When...
...settled in the U. S. But William Armiger's son, James Mogg Scripps, came to the U. S. in 1844. By his second marriage James Mogg was the father of James E. Scripps who founded the Detroit News and whose family still rules the Detroit News and the Booth chain of newspapers in Michigan...
...Reading Coal & Iron Co. and the $10,000,000 Madeira, Hill & Co. The former, a protege of Philadelphia's Drexel interests, has been historically associated with the Reading Railroad. Incensed over Philadelphia & Reading's record of losing $24,000,000 in surplus since 1932, Federal Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson cracked: "There is something radically wrong with the Pennsylvania anthracite industry that it can run up ... inordinately high prices of coal to consumers. The tendency has been for management to take far more than its fair share of the receipts...
...ballots and pencils to the places where they were needed was a big job and there were occasional slips of the new electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary to buy a ticket to the show in order to vote...