Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been one of the hottest champions of Economy, grew livid last week when he learned that the House Appropriations Committee had halved a $5,000,000 Interior Department item for further work on the Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains Park highway-which runs through his district and close by his farm...
...Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round, the lively syndicated column of Washington tips and chitchat produced by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, there appeared one day last week the following item: ''Mrs. Farley, who is always complaining that Jim would rather make speeches than make enough money to buy her a car, grouses privately against the Roosevelts. She thinks the President has not properly recognized her husband's ability...
...economy-minded Senate considered the $571,000,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill last week, Idaho's conscientious Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends...
...Laborite Daily Herald ten pages of pictures, five of text. By wireless & cable alone, Associated Press sent 30,146 words that day, United Press 30,000 words. In Moscow, since the day followed a free day, or day of rest, only one newspaper was printed-Pravda. It carried an item of 150 words relating the Coronation, the great parade of troops and dignitaries and the presence in London of delegates from 55 countries. Suspicious Pravda concluded that they would naturally indulge in important diplomatic conversations. Only in Italian newsorgans did the story make no splash. Obedient to Mussolini...
...item, of painting in the sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...