Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wait its turn. To amuse the Senate the President sent up to the Capitol for confirmation the nominations of 3,616 assorted Government officers appointed since the last Congress adjourned. The House was allowed to fritter away a couple of days debating the Independent Offices Appropriation bill including an item of $10,400 to buy electricity for the White House. Thus the President gave Congress some excuse for being in session, until his detailed program for Congressional action was ready...
...item of interest to flag-carriers in parades was a flagstaff, which may be telescoped when the flag-carrier passes under a low bridge...
...with a momentous statement: "I am, however, submitting a budget for the fiscal year 1936, which balances except for expenditures to give work to the unemployed. If this budget receives the approval of the Congress, the country will henceforth have the assurance that, with the single exception of this item, every current expenditure of whatever nature will be fully covered by our estimates of current receipts. Such deficit as occurs will be due solely to this cause, and it may be expected to decline as rapidly as private industry is able to re-employ those who now are without work...
George Marshall's successor is nearly everything that George Marshall is not. Arthur Grover Newmyer, 49, quit as general manager of the New Orleans Item-Tribune to join Publisher Hearst. His new job will complete a long, meritorious cycle: He began life as a $3.50-a-week stenographer on the Washington Times 35 years ago, when the late Walter Hutchins owned it. Arthur Newmyer, whose father ran a steam carpet-cleaning plant in Washington, rose to be night city editor. When the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey bought the paper and began to fire newshawks right & left, Newmyer transferred...
...present it costs just as much by the hour to tutor the unresponsive student as the responsive, and the drain on the tutor's energy is greater in the one case than in the other. Since these are times when every item of expense must justify itself, common sense would suggest that tutoring be reserved in large measure for those students who can realy profit by it. The tutorial system would be more efficient and would become all the more strongly established if its work were concentrated in the field of its major usefulness, and the resultant economies in operating...