Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the mimeographs of the Post Office Department last week rolled this bulletin...
Every spring there appears on the bulletin boards of University Hall numbers of flamboyant posters proclaiming the joys of education in European universities. They cannot, however, be viewed as anything but a piece of coy irony on the part of the Dean's Office, for the general policy of the august personages therein enshrined has been to surround the transferral of credits from a foreign university with the vast, impenetrable, hyperborean mists of University red tape...
...mixed up with politics; c) licensed traders are not interested in curbing overindulgence and drunkenness; d) once the system is in force and capital is invested in licensed property there is no retreat. When the W. C. T. U. read the Rockefeller plan, it snorted. In a sarcastic bulletin from Evanston headquarters it recalled that taking the profit out of liquor had been advocated 40 years ago by the trustbusting, anticapitalistic Populist Party. Said the W. C. T. U.: "The Populists were looked upon by the Rockefeller family as insane in 1893. And yet the younger Rockefeller presents this Populist...
...answered the President's question. Regular attendants at General Johnson's NRA press conferences have been the editors of two of Washington's "confidential news letters" Willard Monroe Kiplinger whose Washington Letter is circulated privately to business executives, and James True, who gets out a similar bulletin called Industrial Control Reports. Last week it became known that both Kiplinger and True had been in difficulties with General Johnson. Editor Kiplinger filled a page of his Industrial Control Postscript-a supplement to his regular letter-with a discussion of the "News Situation within NRA," revealed that General Johnson...
...causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus van der Lubbe, according to his confession, ignited the bulletin board and a feather-stuffed couch...