Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment was crusty Republican John R. McCarl, whose term did not end until 1936. So crusty was "General" McCarl that long before the New Deal spenders became his greatest antagonists, he was famed as "The Watchdog of the Treasury." Since 1933, Franklin Roosevelt has twice tried, twice failed to draw the Comptroller General's teeth through Reorganization...
...Tell King and Kennedy [the game wardens who arrested him] to always carry a pistol. If I ever meet them I will give them a chance for an even draw-something I won't give...
Approved last week by the Senate Military Affairs Committee was a bill authorizing the U. S. War Department to forbid Army officers to marry during their first three years of active service. Reason: second lieutenants draw only $125 a month, should keep their minds on the Army. Said Brigadier General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, testifying for the bill: ". . . We propose to exempt the present West Point class that graduates this June. I understand commitments have been made...
...hunched his small, round bulk into a Russian train on the way from one small town to another. At about 2 a.m., dozing, he began to look at other passengers and they looked strange: like cutouts. Singer Doriani, who had always hated pictures felt overcome by a desire to draw...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...