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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive committee. Mickey Brennan handles the people. Lawyer Miller watches the law. They were careful to get all the Barkley men they could on the Chandler-dominated election boards this year. Boss Brennan says: "Conservatively, Barkley will win by 60,000." "Miz Lennie" says...
Strictly as a trade journal, P. I. has served its industry well.* It has carefully reported and assayed every simple or fantastic scheme to get the U. S. consumer to buy something. It has evolved statistical summaries of the status of advertising. It maintains a clearinghouse for advertising slogans, now has 7,500 on file. Its Readers' Service answers 300 questions a week, provides P. I.'s editors with an insight into the problems of advertisers. To the irrepressible, sometimes irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer...
...held not by Dr. Giauque but by the Dutch scientists in Leyden, who have used his system and reached the astounding figure of .0044°. One reason for this is that the Leyden researchers work with magnetic fields up to 27,600 gauss (magnetic units), whereas Dr. Giauque must get along with 8,000 gauss until his university finds the money to string bigger power lines into his lab oratory. Another reason is that Giauque does not regard the pursuit of absolute zero as a competitive stunt, but as a means of studying entropy, and for this purpose the region...
...Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, finance missions and schools, pay 60% toward construction of local chapels and tabernacles. And tithes are intended to pay for part of the Mormon Church Security Program, widely publicized after its establishment two years ago as a rugged, pioneering, common-sense way to get self-respecting Mormons off Federal relief...
Last week, many a Mormon - including, some believed, venerable President Heber Jeddy Grant - was a bit dismayed at how the Security Program had been misrepresented. Facts were that only Mormon tithepayers, and hence few indigents participate in the Program. No WPA worker could give up his job to get church aid. Although the church did get 700 projects under way - mining, agricultural, chapel-building, etc. - the Program was not an emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker...