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...refused to honor a $15 Navy Department expense account for an official wreath at a State funeral. He once argued for months with a railroad over a 35? claim, and won. He refused to give a traveling official $1.50 for supper because he said the man could have eaten at home before he caught the train and that anyhow Congress had not appropriated money for that purpose. He has more power over Treasury expenditures than the President, must see every check that is written from 1? to $1,000,000,000. He can be overridden by no Government official. Comptroller...
...This, gentlemen, is the best collection of moth-eaten architectural motifs ever gathered in Milwaukee. . . . The exhibition shows the best of good taste in current architecture, but no progressive thought. Our English type houses have out-Englished the English. We are building better colonial homes than can be found in the seaboard towns along the Atlantic . . . but this exhibit contains only two examples of progressive thought. All else is borrowed from other times and other countries and hashed over...
...kitchenette adjoining the room was littered with gin and whiskey bottles. On the table was a half-eaten angel cake. On the floor of the room were some of Kelly's sawed-off machine guns, weapons he had learned to use after listening to the tales of oldtime racketeers in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In another room the officers found Mrs. Kelly, 29, disguised in a red wig, her face bearing the telltale scar of a blow her husband once gave her. "We've been celebrating our third anniversary," she explained. "A swell celebration! Just swell...
...nature of hunger and reactions of animals to various conditions of light and situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...gold standard -65?. Because President Roosevelt had not yet seen fit to devalue the dollar, the price is determined by supply & demand in international exchange. And because the U. S. has a 'favorable trade balance, demand is normally greater than supply. Whence the dollar flood that has eaten away 35? of every 100? in each U. S. dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted for only a fraction of the drop. Last week from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference...