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...series of recommendations which Director Douglas asked to have attached to the bill as riders to give the President even greater powers as an economizer. Authority was sought for the President to: 1) retire Federal employes after 30 years' civil service and leave their jobs vacant; 2) furlough indefinitely on half pay any number of Army officers (the plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given...
...Adventure tells of a flight across the Sahara, from Paris to Timbuctoo and back. Seabrook wanted to go to Timbuctoo to see Pére Yakouba. famed renegade French priest (their first meeting is described in Jungle Ways). Flight Captain Rene Wauthier of the French Army, then on furlough, offered to fly him there in his plane. Third member of the party was Marjorie Worthington, U. S. writer. In luxurious comfort they slid down across France, bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays...
...musicians for whom New Yorkers rise respectfully to their feet. They stand up when aged Ignace Jan Paderewski comes on stage to play for them. They stand for Conductor Arturo Toscanini when he starts the Philharmonic season in the autumn and when he returns after his long winter furlough. Last fortnight Toscanini returned to Manhattan after sunning himself for eight weeks...
...Jones was to have taken a furlough in the U. S. last year but it was postponed until this year. Word came lately that he had been preaching throughout China, that henceforth he might spend half his time there. What he saw in China, what he thought of it, he told last week and the week before in Christian Century...
...Passed the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill ($963,416,597) after adding about $2,000,000 to the committee's total; sent it to the Senate. Included was a continuation of this year's forced furlough plan but omitted was the President's recommendation for an additional 11% cut on salaries over...