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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps 40-a bill was introduced in Congress providing that our country be known henceforth as "Usona," short for United States of North America [TIME, March 13 et seq.]. Whereupon John Sharp Williams of Mississippi moved as a substitute that instead of "Usona" the name be "Weuns." The bill got no farther...
...Woodrum got the $150,000,000 cut to $100,000,000, but saved it from being cut still more to $55,000,000. The House overwhelmingly voted an inquiry into...
...year after TVA's simmering, saintly Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan got himself fired for quarreling publicly with co-Directors Harcourt Morgan and David Lilienthal (TIME, March 14,1938, et seq.), a joint House & Senate committee which investigated his complaints that the TVA had been mismanaged last week produced three findings...
...Corp. several years ago. Bernays hired Pitts Sanborn, music critic of the New York World-Telegram, to write several hundred "leaders in the world of music" asking if they did not agree that it was time a better radio was produced. Those that replied naturally said yes. Bernays then got up a booklet full of apt quotes from their letters, sent it (over Pitts Sanborn's signature) to newspaper editors with a letter pointing out that musical leaders were demanding a better radio. This received extensive publicity and soon Philco announced that in response to the demand from...
...months in Tibet are described in Penthouse of the Gods. An unusual travel book, particularly outstanding for its photographs, it describes his journey from India through the 18,000-foot passes of the Himalayas, the diplomatic wangling which got him an official invitation to the "forbidden city" of Lhasa, his novitiate in the big monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet...