Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining public lectures will be "The Romance of Military Photography" by Captain D. M. Reeves, on March 8, "Mapping the Earth from the Air," by Captain B. C. Hill on March 22; and "From the Log of a Flying Photographer" by Lieutenant J. F. Phillips on April...
...first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican...
...frontiers of knowledge in their own fields. . . cling tenaciously to traditional habits of thought when their work as teachers is concerned." According to the report, professors, in order to favor their own original work, disregard any consideration of teaching problems. The departmental system. It is concluded, is the "key log in the educational jam" "narrow departmental ambition" draws attention away from the more fundamental problems of teaching...
Next man on the Treasury list is Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago. Banker Traylor's appointment would be satisfying to Kentucky where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...gathered his executives about him to ponder liquidation or continuance of the lumber business. Willingly risking his personal fortune, he joined in their vote to continue, promptly dispatched men into the Northwest to buy great tracts of Douglas fir. For the new venture they bought extensively, carefully. "A poor log costs as much to cut up as a good log, yes, and more," mused the little old lumberman...