Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secret Service operatives and detailed budgets under which they work is never made public. The Secret Service maintains 36 local bureaus, whose heads must necessarily be accessible and known. It is estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through...
...inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features on any of her figures' faces. Even a starched-capped keeper with pince-nez and key-ring had no nose, no eyes, no mouth...
...minutes later a wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into...
When a child has been exposed to measles, most highly contagious of all diseases, a doctor should be called at once. He will draw 30 cc. of blood from an adult who has had the disease, preferably one of the child's parents. Injected with this, the child will have a mild case of measles, be henceforth immune. Should this be neglected and a child grow very ill it must have blood from someone who has just recovered from the disease. Last week Washington's Children's Hospital, announcing that ten children in its care faced death...
...only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure to draw impressionable youth from Adolf Hitler. The pomp and ceremony of a Habsburg court, always the stiffest in Europe, would be a drawing card for Austria's languishing tourist trade. It would bring Austria the not inconsiderable backing of the Vatican. On the other hand, the restoration of Otto...