Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sundowner" who read with interest the article concerning that eminent former "sundowner," Frank J. Hogan, I would like to add an interesting item. Almost all of those who unsuccessfully take the semi-annual bar examinations are condoled with the information that "Frank Hogan (considered the leading member of the local bar) flunked the bar exams three or four times." I asked John Paul ("Daddy") Earnest, Chairman of the Board of Examiners, to verify that statement, but he was unable to do so. However, I think it can be considered the truth, since the fact seems to be well-known...
...President will be elected for six years and will not be eligible to succeed himself. Salary: $15,000. He has power to veto not only whole bills but any item in an appropriation, revenue or tariff bill. The Legislature cannot, with two minor exceptions, appropriate more money than he asks for in his budget. The Vice President may serve in his Cabinet and Cabinet members may address the Legislature...
...Barthou who was assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15), fetched $2,736 this week in Paris at an auction of his library. On the first auction day $69,498 was realized. M. Barthou's collection of erotica having been unrivaled. A comparatively pure item of Napoleon-to-Josephine letters fetched...
...issue of Dec. 31 TIME published an item under the caption "Wings for Tigers" in which it was alleged that the Japanese Government, speaking through the Rengo News Agency, issued a statement to the general effect that Japan would be able to best the U. S. in any naval race that might result from the abrogation of the Washington naval treaty...
About one-half of all U. S. gypsum plaster is sold by U. S. Gypsum Co., a $60,000,000 corporation founded in the trust-making heyday of 1901, and always called by its management "Gyp." Gyp also sells prefabricated plaster called Sheetrock. Gyp's leading non-gypsum item is metal lathing to put under its gypsum plaster, and Gyp sells about one-fourth of all metal lathing in the U. S. Hard hit by the building depression, Gyp's profits sank as low as $1.599,000 in 1932, were $2,155,000 last year...