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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inhabitants evacuated. Bus and trolley service was virtually abandoned and, with mills crippled and mines flooded, 30,000 were jobless in the area. In the 100 mr. between Parkersburg and Huntington, thousands were driven from their homes. Not a store was open on Point Pleasant's Main Street as trucks hauled everything movable back into the hills. Synagogs and churches were turned into rescue stations and refugee barracks. The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. suspended operation on its Ohio Division. Ohio...
...Vice President.-More unusual, Jack Garner became the first Vice President to take his oath of office on the same platform as the President instead of separately in the Senate chamber. Unique, he was chief officer of the nation for the minute or two that passed before the main drama of the occasion was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes. This act was a dramatization of the Constitutional issue which troubled the campaign of 1936 and still burns. Standing up and removing his skull cap from his damp hair, the Chief Justice boomed: "Do you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...hampered as railroads would be if each State required different gauge tracks. Last week in Columbia, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decided that South Carolina's limitations (example: goin, width, though most States allow 96-in.) were an "unreasonable burden" upon truck commerce insofar as hard-surfaced main roads were concerned, granted truckers a permanent injunction against them...
...main problem of the school, as the Commission predicted, will be to achieve a position which is neither that of a symposium in political philosophy nor a mere trade school for the mechanics of government. It is of great importance that this middle of the road be closely followed. The higher realms of political theory are proper fields for those who intend to teach, but those whose immediate business is the government service have neither the time nor the energy to spare for such studies. On the other hand, the Littauer school cannot fill the shoes ordered...
Though Seeburg's main business is in phonographs, its main interest at present is in the still fertile realm of coin machines purveying other commodities than music. Recently Seeburg engineers have perfected ice cream and Coca-Cola vendors. Mr. Seeburg got interested in merchandise vending machines in England, where cigaret machines first came into general use, where as early as 1932, at the London Zoo, visitors ta the seals could operate for sixpence a herring hurling machine...