Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood Control. Directly affecting the Treasury, and therefore the degree of wise tax reduction, is the most pressing extra-budget item of all flood control in the Mississippi Basin. The Administration's $296,400,000 program, of which the States benefited were to pay $37,080,000, besides furnishing rights of way, was scrapped in February by the House Committee on Flood Control and replaced by an expansive $473,000,000 program, to be borne entirely by the U. S. This measure President Coolidge promised to veto. Senator Jones of Washington then tried his hand at the problem...
...York City newspapers one day last week announcing the return of a famed young woman. A year ago the shrug of her well-rounded shoulders was worth a big black headline. But that was history by which many a newspaper profited and was shamed. Last week's item was that Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning went on the stage of the vast Keith-Albee Hippodrome in uptown Manhattan. Adequately clothed, she sang briefly and badly in a vaudeville act, introduced by a sleek whippersnapper. To a few newsgatherers in her dressing room, Mrs. Browning talked intelligently, familiarly; referred...
TIME (Feb. 6, p. 26) made profound typographic error under section headed ART, in item headed "Plastic Advertisements," in third word in fourth paragraph-autocars...
Last week a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Press had to report a happening in the coalfields near Sharon, Pa. From the stereotyped "slayer" headline slapped on in the office, from the position given the item on the Press' pink-page, it was difficult to tell whether Editor J. Y. Chidester of the Press appreciated how hideous an event had actually taken-place or with what powerful, self-controlled simplicity the correspondent had done his duty when he wrote the following...
...Item: One blissfully happy ending...