Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nosing about outside the chapel was a crowd of 2,000. Inside were a score of Hollywood celebrities. Excerpts from the eulogy delivered by Cinemactor Conrad Nagel: "This can't be the end. His gentle spirit is still with us. We bid you godspeed, Paul Bern, on your journey to a better place and we say here in your own words and in all reverence: 'We'll be seeing...
Prime source of profit is "mileage," paid at the rate of 400 per mile to & from sessions. The ordinary traveler pays $4.38 to make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore. For the same journey Maryland's Goldsborough draws $16 from the public treasury, pockets $11.62. New York's Wagner collects $96 for a trip which costs ordinary citizens only $23.78. Transportation home & back costs Idaho's Borah $239.56 for which the Senate pays him $1,058.80. Ohio's Fess profits $198.42 for each session; Washington's Jones $1,074.22. Representatives enjoy the same generous allowance...
...JOURNEY INWARD-Kurt Heuser- Viking...
...BURNING BUSH-Sigrid Und-set-Knopf ($2.50). THE FAMILY CIRCLE-Andre Mau-rois-Appleton ($2.50). A GOOD MAN'S LOVE-E. M. Dela-field-Harper ($2.50). THE JOURNEY INWARD - Kurt Heuser-Viking ($2.50). CHARLOTTE BRONTE-E. F. Benson -Longmans, Green ($4). A not unfriendly debunking of the tense Bronte household by the expert Victorianographer of As We Were...
...President Hoover recommended to Congress a $100,000 appropriation to send the men home, feed them on the way. House & Senate acted promptly. Each Veteran was to be advanced the price of a cut-rate railroad ticket, allowed 75? per day for food during the journey. No gift, the advance was in each case to be deducted from the final payment of the Veteran's bonus certificate. The offer was good only until July 15. The first day some 600 discouraged Veterans took advantage of the chance to ride home, applied for Government largesse. Perhaps a break...