Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine, Chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, called at the White House. He told the President that much sentiment had arisen in the Committee to drop all radio legislation, to allow the Federal Radio Commission to go out of existence as an administrative body in March...
...phones. Said Mr. Drake: "We're all slaves of the monopolistic telephone company. You know we have to pay the loss on bad slugs." To which, William D. Bangs, general counsel for the telephone company, queried: "Is it possible that the clientele of the Blackstone and the Drake should drop bad slugs in the phones...
Back home at Smith College, President William Allan Neilson found his mail doubled over night. The extra letters were from alumnae, begging him to drop Jolter Barnes...
...spite of his good resolutions not to attend classes, movies, or even to drink a drop during the Reading Period, the Vagabond will be lured from his books in order to hear Professors Spalding and Ballantine play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in the Music Building at 10 o'clock today...
...concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...