Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Michigan had $896,414 slashed from its last year's budget. That, it was announced last week, meant cuts of 8% to 20% in all salaries over $1,500. It also meant the dismissal of 66 teachers, including four full professors, and 39 nonacademic em ployes. On part-time went 122 others. Administrative and maintenance expenditures will be cut to the bone...
...pistols, a rifle, a golf bag full of ammunition, a roll of adhesive tape and 20 ft. of gauze-regular kidnapping equipment. One gangster explained: "We were up here fishing. We got one 17-lb. muskie. The guns? Why, we had those to shoot the fish. They catch 'em big up here...
...destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When mail stacks up too high before him, he sweeps it impatiently into a basket, sends it out to his assistants with a: "Let 'em answer it." He is still troubled with bad spells of absentmindedness. Shortly after he took office, he consulted with a civilian who seemed to know a lot about the navy. When the civilian left, Secretary Swanson turned to his secretary and drinking partner, Archibald Oden, and said...
...That's right. And clip 'em...
...devil's meat, Or listenin' to the angels sing,- Try to get some altitude! He kicked his rudder right around, When landing cross wind to the breeze, And much to his surprise he found, He had an engine on his knees- Land 'em straight and land up slow...