Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well did Congressmen know that in every Legion post throughout the land is posted the record of how each Congressman votes on pensions. Firm is every Congressman's belief that each Legionary can control five votes for or against him. Easy would it be for Congressmen to explain that when the President had unbalanced the budget by nine billions, a few millions more or less for pensions would not matter...
Emil A. Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age"). Alpha Pearl, who teaches the school's most popular course. Stenography ("A profession to professionals-a great convenience to others") at the Y. M. C. A. building, practices her vocation by day at the Kirby Mercantile Agency. There are courses in Dramatic Interpretation at the Reo Club House...
...TIME in the arrogant tone of an innocent accused, explain to one who has faith the remarkable coincidence of the Chrysler pan on the cover of its current issue (Jan. 8) and the Chrysler blurb on the inside spread. Then let my not always omniscient brother-in-law mend his talk...
...this generality does not hold. Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes explained last week. The character of the appendix changes as people grow older. In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which renders it a particularly good harborer for germs. In the old the appendix largely loses its lymphoid character. Its risks then grow from diseases of its blood vessels...
...since then he has been a traction man, a manufacturer, not a banker. Of his 25 directorships not one is on the board of a bank. One of them, however, is on the board of American Car & Foundry Co. of which William Woodin was head. That contact seemed to explain why Mr. Cummings was made president of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The RFC in its announcement listed among his other qualifications the fact that he "enjoys the personal friendship of President Roosevelt, Secretary Morgenthau and the Comptroller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor...