Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million dollars into the red, which President Hoover considered a lamentable showing for the only "business" arm of a Government which its officials, in moments of pride, like to call "the biggest business organization in the world." Promptly President Hoover summoned to the White House Postmaster General Walter Brown and his four assistant postmasters general, told them something had to be done to reduce these ever-increasing shortages, to put the postal service on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. What concerned the President chiefly was the sudden leap in this year's deficit and the prospect of similar...
...conference with Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover called for a quick and thorough study of postal costs by mail classes. At the Post Office Department, many an official was sure that the only remedy lay in increasing postal rates, especially on second and fourth class matter, a proposal which they knew would arouse the bitterest antagonism in Congress, which alone can sanction...
...President of the U. S. is responsible for the governance of Washington. Municipal officers are three commissioners appointed by the President. †The tilt of the Brown Derby is a cranial inevitability...
...week prior, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee had held sugar hearings to which flocked white men and brown men, businessmen and lawyermen, bearing bulging brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...work of genius, The Wave succeeds in being at least unusual. Its 625 pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing in foreign countries...