Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indication of the importance that he places on the Chief Engineer's post, the President let it be known that he was looking for three other warrior-engineer-executives. They will be General Brown's lieutenants, one in local charge of the flood relief project (Cairo, 111., to the Gulf), one in charge of the Mississippi developments north of Cairo, one in charge of the Great Lakes and proposed St. Lawrence waterway...
...necktie sat in. the front row. Beside him sat his New York lawyer, Daniel Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report. He had no authority beyond that. We were to pay a third of the agreed amount...
...Mail. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown sent word to the air mail operators that they must appear at Washington Sept. 30 to revise their contract rates. He must have revision because his air mail appropriation is $13,300,000 for this year and his expenses are mounting towards $15,000,000. He wants not only to get within his appropriations but to get below it. Dismaying was this call to the carriers who have been hoping to get all first class mail. However, Mr. Brown did not block that prospect specifically. Indeed his second assistant, Warren Irving Glover, volunteered that...
...Brown Derby Bricks. A house built of bricks without mortar would fall down unless all the bricks had grooves grooving into each other. Of a patented grooved brick and a $100,000,000 concern to market it there was much talk in London last week, the talk emanating from William F. Kenny, who made a fortune out of contracting, is director of Chrysler Corp., became famed last year as Brown Derby's Best Friend. Grooved bricks, said Tycoon Kenny, will reduce building costs by 20% besides successfully resisting Wind & Storm...
Birth Control is "the most dangerous subject on which the medical profession can express itself," Association President George Van Amber Brown dared to state. Honest, he repeated the popularly known fact that educated U. S. men and women generally know effective means of contraception. He urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women...