Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving the names of symphony orchestras which started their season of programs last week, you omitted the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Professor Brown of Harvard called it a "national model" for cities of this size...
Statistical beyond all others was the annual report of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. His most important legislative recommendation sought punishment for blackmailers using the mails as a means of attempted extortion...
...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...
...Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return...
...most (ten), though not the hardest games. Sticking to straight football, West Virginia veered round and thumped past Washington & Jefferson in a snowstorm, 6 to 0. Watched by a bored crowd too cold to cheer, Colgate's backs spun out swift variations of a reverse play that Brown could never understand. Colgate 32, Brown...