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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom a Cabinet must stick by its President through the hottest Washington summer. Last year the Drought kept President Hoover and therefore most of his Cabinet in and around the Capital. This year, however, it is generally assumed that the President will go holidaying somewhere, sometime. On the strength of this assumption his Cabinet members have been busily planning how and when to get out of Washington. First to announce his vacation plans last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Late this month he will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain...
...longer quasi-public but predominantly a rich man's college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game...
...years New York City's custom has been to load most of its garbage aboard scows, tow them about 40 mi. to sea, dump them. Wind and tide drift much of the refuse back to shore, spreading it along New Jersey's otherwise fine resort beaches, polluting the water, depreciating property values. New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to enjoin New York's garbage dumping as a public nuisance. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the city to stop its evil practice, but allowed it a "reasonable time" (yet to be fixed) in which to construct garbage...
Despite this supreme precedent of night burials, I doubt if the custom would ever become popular in the U. S. Of course, it has its advantages: a convenient hour when friends can come without missing their work, a dark privacy for personal grief, a hushed solemnity. But are not pomp and ostentation an integral part of most funerals and is not daylight necessary to parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect...
...billowing flames. After the preliminary work, during which Brother Myron broke his leg, a sloping track of steel pipe was pushed to the well's mouth. Hobbling around on crutches. Brother Myron helped Brother Floyd load an insulated barrel with 70 quarts of nitroglycerine. As is the custom, both of the Kinleys spurned asbestos clothing, went about their work drenched by hoses in the hands of their assistants. When all was ready, the barrel rolled down its track, was touched off by electricity when it reached the end. The first charge did not work, but the second did. Satisfied...