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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the official revelation some days ago by the head of the Federal Alcohol Administration that more than half of the country's alcoholic output -- and consumption -- was of illegitimate origin, Government preparations for doing away with the admittedly nefarious traffic have been going forward at a high rate. Action followed rapidly on the heels of outcry, and overnight the new Alcohol Tax Unit joined the Administration's numerous progeny through the merger of the old Bureaus of Prohibition and of Industrial Alcohol Control. Boasting a doubled enforcement outfit, the super-efficient A.T.U. has announced to the country through...
...fact the presumptive cases include thousands of veterans who can trace their disabilities directly to service origin, and present unimpeachable proof thereof. But variations in post-War employment conditions, loss of records through death of physicians, inability to locate witnesses known 15 years ago, and other normal factors complicate the problem of proof for many men. The regulations adopted under the 1933 Economy Act very virtuously read that the benefit of a reasonable doubt, on such proof as was presented, should go to the veteran; but other clauses so restricted the application of this rule that its interpretation resulted...
Tomorrow there will be no classes; and a great number of Freshmen who have not had the good fortune of a codfish origin will wonder why there are no classes. Some few of these will have heard of Patriot's Day something as they have heard of Bastille Day; but to others the Lexington-Concord commemoration will be a complete novelty in the way of vacation alibis. To all, whether they admit it or not, the holiday will constitute a nuisance and an undesirable distraction...
Librettos (more accurately, scenarios) for ballet are generally, for some mysterious reason, the work of poets though the spoken word plays no part. Origin of Union Pacific was Mr. MacLeish's satiric poem, "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," which celebrated the building of the transcontinental lines by immigrant labor, satirized the role of the promoters & capitalists...
...ugly, very ugly, with bowed shoulders, rather bandy-legged and with an excessive chin. But, gentlemen, he was made by God and when he begins with the cape and when he unfolds his marvelous muleta he reminds us of his divine origin...