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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This shrewdly timed White House order was identical with the Administration's bill which, never a "must" measure, fell before Republican "noes" in the House last June. It provided that all postmasterships shall in future be filled by: 1) the postmaster already in office after a noncompetitive civil service examination, or 2) a postal employe with a civil service rating, likewise after a noncompetitive examination, or 3) the person making the highest mark in an open competitive examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission. To qualify, a candidate must have been a bona fide patron of the post office...
Greatest REA triumph was the ramshackle old cow barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they...
...answer to these grim forebodings, rain fell on South Dakota this week and the Department of Agriculture pointed out that farmers' cash income for the first six months of 1936 was $335,000,000 higher than for the same period in 1935. Cheerily declared five Midwest farm journals in The Agricultural Outlook: "Past experience shows that drought does not necessarily curtail farm income when consumer buying power and general economic conditions are improving...
This meant that if the rest of Chen's men ventured to stand and fight, they were obliged to fight fellow-Kwangtungese. At this the Kwangtung Army fell completely apart. Dozens of Chen's chief officers, civil officials, his entire Cantonese air force of 60 planes, two torpedo boats and even the man he had picked for president of an independent Southwest Government fled the province. Wired one officer to dismayed General Chen: "Despite the danger of having my heart dissected and my eyes gouged out by you, I hereby dare to send you this final word...
Vigdis fled with the baby, fell in with robbers, found protection at Olav's Christian court. To Ljot she said: "May you have the worst of deaths-and live long and miserably-you and all you hold dear. And may you see your children die most wretchedly before your eyes...