Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps, officiated at a luncheon for oldtime pilots, the air industry and the press in the administration building at Wright Field. He pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had introduced distinguished guests. Among the latter, the men who must build-their nation's wings up to world war strength in two years eyed particularly a chunky Congressman from Akron, Chairman Dow Harter of the aviation subgroup of the House Military Affairs Committee. For he was trying to help get the expansion program through on time...
...over an act basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan argued in open Senate against his colleague and Leader, when the latter came to next day. He would not yield his victory, and garrumped at the New Deal agencies whose oxen were most seriously gored: "Congress created them and if Congress wants to restrict their powers, they should keep their mouths shut...
...private way that would help us throw light on the befuddled condition at L. S. U.; also anything that you have found that has any bearing on irregularities involving any official or employe of the State of Louisiana." Two L. S. U. supervisors and its construction superintendent resigned. The latter, George Caldwell, his assistant, and a WPA foreman were promptly arrested, charged with diverting WPA labor and materials to private uses...
Otto Kahn died in 1934. His wife & children, though affluent, found the carrying charges of his pleasure dome too much for them. But they could find no latter-day tycoon rich enough to take it over. Last week the Kahn heirs announced they had sold the place for an undisclosed nominal sum to the Sanitation Department of New York City. Where divas dazzled financiers, where 50-piece orchestras played all night for Long Island's gilded youth, now white-wings who spent their lives cleaning the streets of the metropolis, inspectors who fought its diseases, engineers who disposed...
...more SEC regulation of brokers' activities-regulation designed to insure customer safety, or 2) by the establishment of brokerage banks, you can, as far as this subject of customer protection is concerned, get rid of the SEC and of SEC regulations on that subject. We much prefer the latter: it is far simpler, less expensive, less irritating to you and less difficult for us." from an annual 160 to 220 per bird without increased feeding; annual milk output from 8,000 to 12,000 lbs. per cow.) Thus while Author Prentice is personally one of the least likely...