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...fourth table will discuss the question of State-Federal relationships, particularly with relation to the State regulation of public utilities and the State's ability to assist agriculture, For this table Milburn L. Wilson, Under-Secretary of Agriculture, had accepted but last night telegraphed that he would be unable to come due to the press of official business. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, of the Brookings Institute, and Robert Amory, president of the Nashua Manufacturing Company, have accepted to attend the table...
CATALOGUE-George Milburn-Earcourt, Brace...
Last week George Milburn used the catalogs as the basis for a short, episodic bit of authentic Americana, detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston...
...last week Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace was at Hyde Park, Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell was in Nebraska and Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson on his way to Europe. In this unusual situation Willis R. Gregg, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, became acting head of the Department of Agriculture for a day. It was poetic justice. On occasions when the hand of God is laid heavily upon U. S. agronomy the weather man becomes the controlling influence in U. S. farm policy...
...Devereux Milburn played a brilliant game at back but the team missed Harry Payne Whitney at No. 3. Under the hot sun at Meadow Brook, sitting in the stands under dainty parasols or fanning themselves with huge boaters, a crowd of 10,000 saw England's dashing polo team of four Army officers win the second straight game against the U. S. for the Westchester Cup. That was June 16, 1914. England has not won a polo game against the U. S. since...