Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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† Endowed by Charles Franklin Kettering, Vice president of General Motors.
Despite the inevitable self-consciousness of this buildup, Baltimore's union men and their families found plenty to look at and plenty to like in the museum's galleries. Most of the 106 items of painting and sculpture were by good contemporaries, though two of the best were...
The old Literary Digest straw poll, although it came to a disastrous end when it predicted that Alfred Mossman Landon would be elected President in 1936, demonstrated that public opinion polls have a commercial value. Result is that at least half-a-dozen organizations today are periodically polling the U...
When Baritone John Charles Thomas closes a broadcast by saying, "Good night, Mother," when a victorious prize fighter pants into the mike, "Hello, Mom, put on that steak. I'll be right home," they violate the terms on which FCC issues broadcasting licenses. For radio stations hold their licenses...
Until the World War the public debt of the U. S. never exceeded $2,500,000,000. But by 1919 the liability side of the U. S. ledger carried a then-stupendous total of $25,000,000,000-and Wall Street had a lucrative new field, trading in Government bonds...