Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE...
...McNutt Presidential boom started on schedule January 21 when the State Democratic Committee met at the late Senator Tom Taggart's rococo hotel at French Lick Springs, accepted the resignation of Son Tom Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited...
...Caux, who was born in a New Zealand mining town 38 years ago, has worked on many leading U. S. labor papers. In spots where the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. breach has been most serious, C. I. 0. has also started its own local papers. Frank Palmer's People's Press, brought out independently two years ago, is official organ for eight C. I. 0. unions and the Chicago Workers' Alliance, today has 36 regional editions and 310,000 circulation, biggest of any newcomer in the labor field...
...several weeks the same museum has shown a roomful of photographs of "Fallingwater," Frank Lloyd Wright's new house at Bear Run, Pa. (TIME, Jan. 17). Sealed in the masonry of this building is a burlap bag containing comments by well-known Pittsburgh architects on the plans, few of whom thought it could be built successfully. It was built so successfully that many a gallerygoer has been led to wonder how the New York World's Fair, like the Chicago Fair before it, has managed to ignore Architect Wright. Last week in the New Yorker Critic Lewis Mumford...
...been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant ovaries swelled up just as though the blooms had been pollinated, the seed coats developed, and the berries, green at first, turned...