Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never before while Congress was in session had Jack Garner done anything of this kind. In Congress he has been one of the President's chief behind-scenes wirepullers, arranger of neat political compromises, legislative uncle of the New Deal. With the Executive department reorganization, wages & hours and taxloophole...
¶ One April day, six years ago when Herbert Hoover was President, Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, cashier of a "Garden T Shoppe" in Washington was mortally wounded in a holdup. One Thomas Jordon, 31-year-old busboy, was among those suspected. Two years ago Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N...
One potentially huge and comparatively untapped source of cinema revenue is 16-mm. and 8-mm. film. There are currently estimated to be some 2,000,000 small projectors in the U. S. There would be many more if there were films better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured...
Ten years ago, from their cloistered monastery in Indianapolis, sisters of the Discalced (unshod) Carmelite order sent word to their friends that they wished a new monstrance (altar vessel in which the Sacred Host is exposed). A piece at a time, gold came in to the sisters in the form...
Two days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier...