Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital bed after an appendectomy, went to President Jacobs to complain about the nonpayment of his salary, demanded $200. President Jacobs reminded him that since June 1, 1932 the University had dropped set salaries, paid its faculty only what it could afford from time to time. Nevertheless Preacher Dodge, who was pastor of Atlanta's Central Congregational Church until parishioners tired of his advanced religious views, needed the money and thought he should have it. One morning last week wiry little Preacher Dodge marched into wiry little President Jacobs' office for a showdown...
...shortage of men and equipment the committee blamed lack of funds and a niggardly Congress: ''The evidence . . . indicates clearly that the whole Army, as well as the Air Corps, is short of modern armament, equipment and transportation, as well as an adequate munition reserve." Nevertheless: "In military aviation . . . the U. S. stands second of the great powers insofar as total numbers of Army and Navy airplanes are concerned. . . . However, the fact is clear that . . . our Army combat aviation appears to have been allowed to fall below other leading aviation powers of the world in strength. . . . The fear that...
Commander Hunsaker, a trained technical observer, is already in Europe. Nevertheless he was to arrive home this week and with Members Warner, Berres & Lane, board a Department of Commerce plane Aug. 3 for a month's tour of the U. S. to visit Army & Navy bases, inspect commercial airports and aircraft factories and look over airmail, passenger & express route...
...hunting man, Sir John nevertheless shares with most Britons a passion for exterminating what he understands by "cruelty to animals." He frowned black disapproval last week upon the "refined rodeo" now being staged in London by SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS He will put his police into disorder. U. S. Cowboy Maestro Tex Austin. First amused, then indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded...
...Lilienthal replied that he did not like Mr. Groesbeck's attitude. Nevertheless he upped his offer $1,300,000 on condition that Mr. Groesbeck throw in an important transmission line, gave him until this week to take it or leave it. Admitting that investors deserved a break, Mr. Lilienthal tartly observed: "You refer to the activities of the T. V. A. ... and P. W. A. very much as if those two agencies were outside interests plotting the destruction of your business. You seem to forget that both ... are instrumentalities of the people of the United States." If Mr. Groesbeck...