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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorably reported to the Senate by Wyoming's mild Senator Harry H. Schwartz, member of the Senate Committee on Claims, was S. 3046, A BILL For the relief of Richard D. Krenik, a farmer of Graham, Wash., awarding $450 to Farmer Krenik because WPA blasters working near his farm, on the Puyallup River Flood Relief Project No. 632, did with their dynamite so addle and jelly 250 turkey eggs in his incubators and under his hens that only 40 hatched, and of these 40 poults, themselves none too strong, 20 died soon after...
This week Britons hoped that their dynamic, somewhat dictatorial War Secretary will get on well with Dictator Mussolini, to whom he is carrying a warm message of personal regard from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Premier Mussolini has not been visited by any member of a British Cabinet since June 2 5, 1935-the fateful summer day on which Mr. Anthony Eden had a personal quarrel in Rome with the Dictator which affected the whole history of contemporary Europe. Just before the War Secretary left England by plane for Malta, where he will inspect naval defenses before going to Rome this...
When newshawks took the matter to Charles A. Coolidge Jr., a member of the Harvard Corporation,he said coldly: "The university does not measure men by their politics or beliefs...
Into New Orleans last week, on an "unofficial" mission of great importance, bowed goggling little Kaju Nakamura, U. S.-educated professional Japanese gladhander, onetime member of the Japanese Imperial Diet. His mission: to explain Japan and the Japanese to the U. S. public. Smiling with bland and magnificent unction, the honorable gentleman immediately proceeded to clarify Japan's attitude on a matter that still rankles mightily in U. S. memories...
...flick of a switch, morning and night, and for the electricity. Furthermore, each trip on the shuttle would save a Representative one minute-one and a half if he helped himself along by walking. Total saving to 435 Congressmen in an average of three round trips per day: 3.915 member-minutes. Minutes, say U. S. Representatives, are worth money...