Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left Spanish War pensions entirely in the President's hands. The President had done a $100,000,000 backtrack under pressure from 435 politicians thinking only of their own skins in the next Congressional election, but he had maintained the principle that only veterans with War injuries should draw pensions. Before the House accepted (243-to-154) the White House compromise in place of the Senate amendment. North Carolina's Pou, chairman of the Rules Committee and dean of the House, joyfully declared: "Now I can go home and look my people in the face with a better...
...being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors to teach them useful occupations. "There will be plenty of work," said Secretary Perkins, "keeping the camp." On the first day for registration in Manhattan, applications far exceeded accommodations at the Bear Mountain camp...
...sport, longtime member of New York State's Athletic Commission; of cancer of the prostate gland; at Purchase, N. Y. As world's Graeco-Roman wrestling champion in the 1880's, he successfully defended his title against Clarence Whistler, "The Kansas Demon," in three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed...
With the change in the left side of the infield, Harvard may make a comeback although Dartmouth has been improving rapidly and has defeated the Crimson, 5-2. Taylor or deGive will draw the pitching assignment against Cutts...
...future profits and losses. Last week John W. Davis, eminent counsel of the firm, admitted that not even he had seen the articles which say what share each partner has in the business.† As profits come in they are credited to the partners' accounts. They draw what they need, leave the rest to increase their stake in the firm. Losses are similarly shared. Six of the partners are in debt to the firm, several of the younger ones for their share of the losses sustained since they entered the firm. These debts will be repaid when profits...