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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning against change, by Democrats as evidence of bad stewardship-out of a report from the Budget Bureau that fiscal 1929 might show a deficit of 94 millions. President Coolidge now announced that the outlook was for a surplus of some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues. The postal deficit was 60 millions greater than expected. Flood control added...
...Royalty, last week, on the eve of returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, graduated to be Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department, is suave, astute...
Because the number of banana eaters in the U. S. is practically a daily constant, and because from the banana comes such useful commodities as banana oil, the United Fruit Co. (Manhattan) has developed many square miles of banana plantations near Santa Marta. Here the company owns a railroad (28 miles), has its own telegraph and radio stations, maintains a hospital, employs 200 U. S. citizens, about 19,000 native workers...
...natural history museums. The American Museum has several groups of wild animals in natural surroundings. Last week it received seven lion skins, brought back from Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will...
...been incredulous if he had been told that in the twentieth century his immortality would depend not so much on his achievements as patriot and scientist but for the little weekly he founded for his neighbors in William Penn's colony. The vicissitudes of its early life and the near-extinctions that several times threatened it would not have encouraged anyone to entrust his chances of fame...