Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular columns. If the Drought's aftermath was as bad as anticipated, or if private industry failed to take enough men off relief rolls, he warned, he might have to ask Congress to add an extra $500,000,000 for relief to his total figure...
...were getting desperate. He demanded a raise and got ?180, but that was still not ?200. The Commercial Bank of Scotland refused to take into consideration an offer by Mr. Notman's father to screw Son Notman's income up to ?200 by giving him an extra ?20 per year...
...throbbing, shell-shocked September of 1914 the conscientious New York Times issued a Mid-Week Pictorial War Extra to carry the overflow of photographs from its Sunday rotogravure section. After the War, this Wednesday photographic supplement was continued, called Mid-Week Pictorial. Though edited and circulated separately, Mid-Week Pictorial had Times prestige, Times professional standards in its making. However, the big paper never did much to promote its small offspring, and top Pictorial circulation, in 1925, was only 65,278. Last week the Times's President Arthur Hays Sulzberger finally cut Mid-Week Pictorial adrift, but not without...
...season started last June when the U. S. beat England at Hurlingham. It continued at Berlin, where Argentina won the Olympic tournament, in which no U. S. team was entered. Last week, Polo moved to Long Island for the U. S. Open Championship. This year the Open has an extra significance: the winner will represent the U. S. against Argentina in the year's second major international series, the Cup of the Americas, starting at Meadow Brook Sept. 19. In last week's first-round matches, all played the same afternoon on three fields within easy motoring distance...
...Student Council continues today with more or less the same general purpose. Its duties and services are many. In the first place it guarantees the financial success of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances, the Red Book (the annual yearbook), etc. This year a fund has been set up for the use of the Freshmen at any time. This fund can be borrowed to start any project, the money to be returned later. Further, a donation is made of $300 to defray the expenses of the annual Freshman Smoker...