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¶ President Hoover cut his own salary from $75,000 per year to $60,000. This was his contribution to the Government's economy campaign, voluntary because Congress lacks Constitutional power to reduce his pay. Not since Theodore Roosevelt ($50,000) has a President received so little. For President Hoover...
Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing...
Wages. The 3% emergency surcharge was not the sole benefit resulting from the roads' appeal to the I. C. C. They were able to show the public that they had pared maintenance costs to the edge of safety; that they could not avoid taxes and fixed charges on bonds because...
(See front cover) Texas last week rubbed out the one Republican patch on its huge and other wise Democratic Congressional map. By so doing it definitely handed control of the 72nd House of Representatives which meets this week for the first time, over to Democracy by a molecular majority. On...
In 1908 M. Esnault-Pelterie applied for a U. S. patent on what he now calls the singlestick control. The patent was issued in 1914, will expire Nov. 3 next. Seven years ago Esnault-Pelterie filed suit against the U. S. because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks...