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...Another important subcabinet post yet to be filled: Under-Secretary of the Treasury, vacated last January by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge after he split with the Roosevelt Administration over U. S. financial policies. Last week Washington newshawks obligingly sent out the following, at the facetious suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau: "Wanted: Outstanding financial and Government bond expert worth $25,000 to $100,000 annually, willing to work for $10,000 a year as Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Good opportunity for reliable man. Must be willing to work. References required. Apply H. Morgenthau Jr., Secretary...
Seventy-seven counties has the State of Oklahoma - Choctaw and Pushmataha, Bryan and Love, Jefferson and Garfield, Custer and Dewey, Cotton and Alfalfa, Beaver and Kingfisher, many another...
...remedy the existing evils of big business and industry, dissenting groups must use their influence to see that the new laws are carefully thought out and wisely administered. Their minority pressure must be employed to insure care and thoroughness in the future. They must form a minority such as Jefferson envisaged in 1790 when he stated that a minority must be a check on the group in power, not an obstructionist block...
Each division has its own shops. Physics and communication engineering equipment are built in Crufts and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Laboratory. Pierce Hall and the McKay Engineering Laboratory do construction for the Engineering School, while Rotch Hall specializes in metallurgy. Other machine work is in the Biological Laboratories and in Mallinckrodt and at the Medical School...
Thomas Sutpen arrived in Jefferson with a group of wild slaves, built himself a great mansion, married, raised a son Henry and a daughter Judith, became a Confederate colonel, died at the hand of a poor white squatter whose daughter he had seduced. Previously Sutpen had married in Haiti, left his wife when he discovered she had a-spot of Negro blood in her veins. But his son by this first marriage became Henry Sutpen's friend, fell in love with Judith, was at the point of marrying her, despite his knowledge of their kinship, when Henry killed...