Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residence of Sir Philip and Lady Game reporters were assured that "the Governor gave Mr. Lang every chance before demanding his resignation." Sir Philip, his secretaries said, had begun by calling State Premier Lang on the carpet for resisting the efforts of Federal Premier Lyons to collect taxes in the defaulting state of New South Wales (TIME, April 18 et seq.). Since the Federal Treasury has made good the State's defaults, and since the Federal Parliament has authorized tax seizures, Sir Philip protested the circulation by Premier Lang of a letter ordering officials of New South Wales to obstruct...
...Paul, because he was unable to collect a $15 judgment from David Gilman, theatre manager, Kenneth Spencer, ventriloquist, marched across the street from the theatre, made his dummies engage in a dialog anent the integrity of Manager Gilman. Chirped Dummy Spencer : "Say, Gilman, when are you going...
That gave him the State's 16 convention votes. Dr. France was beaten on his home ground. Yet he managed to collect sufficient votes - 16,900 - to disturb the Hoover managers. What they could not explain was why so many anti-Hoover votes had been cast by Republicans who well knew they were throwing their ballots away on a vain candidate. President Hoover had won but he had not - as Cartoonist Edmund Waller Gale of the Los Angeles Times elaborately suggested {see cut) - vacuum-cleaned his absurd opponent as thoroughly as his Maryland friends had expected. The France...
...most recent aftermath of the riot is the appearance of three amateur snapshots of the melee on the bulletin board in the Union, copies of which are offered for sale. Interested persons are requested to subscribe the sum of $.20 for each picture, and to collect all purchases in Holworthy 12. The photographer has chosen for his subjects the arrival of the fire department on the scene, the abuse of an automobile by the crowd, and the forcible removal of one of the rioters by Major Charles R. Apted '06. Owing to the necessity for time exposures the pictures...
...maturer years were not without event. On one occasion, impressed with the success of Cecil Sharp and others in collecting folk songs and music in the fastnesses of Kentucky, the Carolinas and Tennessee, he set out in a buggy, equipped with music paper, a tuning fork and a phonographic recording machine, to collect the folk songs of his home State. Iowa. After a long ride he reached a farm where the daughter of the house consented to sing. He sat with the girl's mother on the piazza, waiting. The silence grew expectant. At last Aggie began to sing...