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...concern, a young salesman get about $3,700. Anyone who gets $3,700 per year can easily remember the figure $3,700,000,000.00 because that is just one million times his salary. To remember that figure became last week a patriotic duty, because that is the figure which Brig. Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord, funny-story-telling Director of the Budget, put down as the cost of U. S. (federal) government for the fiscal year July 1, 1929-June 30, 1930. All the columns and columns of additions and subtractions which totalled 3,700 million were placed by General Lord...
...Died. Brig. Gen. Charles Lewis Potter, 64, onetime (1920-28) president of the Mississippi River Commission, immediately recalled to active service after his retirement last January to supervise Congressional flood control legislation; following an intestinal operation; in St. Louis...
...fencers, yachtsmen, horsemen, cyclists, boxers, officials, etc., etc., boarded the Roosevelt, planned to live aboard the liner until its return August 19. With the U. S. Olympic team went three athletes, not team members, crossing as stowaways. Famed Sprinter Frank Hussey hid in a bathtub, was removed to the brig, ransomed by friends on board...
...Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Col. Palmer E. Pierce last week led forth New York's famed 77th Division for reservist maneuvers along a "battle front" in New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
Married. Betty Brown Tailer, 17, Manhattan scioness, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer; to Walter Gurnee Dyer, son of Brig. Gen. George R. Dyer, grandson of onetime Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island...