Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak of shaking up a log jam to send bobbing away much of the educational machinery the former president had built. . . . Yes, I have had considerable experience smashing real log jams, as well as the log jams of extravagance and waste...
Letters from indignant citizens, many deeply interested in our educational system, are before me, asking that "Controlled Washington" be answered with the truth about the University and the smashing of the so-called "log...
...last week as his eyes picked out such phrases in the baskets of telegrams which flooded the White House the day after his acceptance speech (see col. 3). Henry Ford wired: ''Your fire in the Lincoln Court House is still burning and this morning I added a log to it." Clarence Mott Woolley (American Radiator) reported from New York: "Two Wall Street men, the elevator boy at my hotel, the taxicab driver, the elevator boy in the office building are now enthusiastic supporters." Walter P. Chrysler telegraphed: "Most effective, forceful and frank. No one can have any doubt...
...museum as well as municipal offices. Designed by the Allied Architects Association, the structure suggests a coronet on the city's brow. In it are twelve kinds of marble and $5,000,000 of taxpayers' money, a far advance beyond Denver's first City Hall, a floorless log cabin on the treeless plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands a clocktower capable of rendering the four-note Cambridge quarters. The clock, crowning jewel of the coronet, is the gift of the relict of Denver's long-time (1904-12, 1916-18) Mayor Robert...
...education, or even of that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must have watched with interest, for many of the logs that went bobbing away were educational machinery that he had built...