Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the theory advanced yesterday morning that Arthur J. Perkins, assistant University Janitor, was burned Monday night in a fire started by his pipe while asleep, it was learned last night that papers ignited by a dropped match caused the damage in his room at 1130 Mass. Avenue...
...teaching economics for 13 years at the University of North Carolina, he was appointed director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials on the drafting of reciprocal trade treaties with Cuba, Belgium, Brazil, Haiti, Sweden, Colombia. Gentle, pipe-smoking President Murchison saw clearly the impossibility of damming Japanese cottons with further import duties. Restrictions strong enough to affect the Japanese would be absurdly unfair to European exporters, and U. S. policy forbade a sharply discriminatory tariff...
Last spring it was evident that a reciprocal treaty with Japan would take a long time to arrange, yet it might not be long before the problem of Japanese imports became feverish. President Murchison left his house in Georgetown one day to smoke a pipe with his old friend. Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime trade adviser to the King of Siam, later a criminal law professor at Harvard. Level-headed Mr. Sayre and long-headed Dr. Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan...
...dangled for seven minutes. "It seemed a hell of a lot longer than that to me!" he said. Workers from above lowered a looped cable through which he inserted his legs, permitting them to hoist him to safety. Not until then did he unclench his teeth from his pipe, let it drop down, down into...
...Harvard's School of Architecture for many years gave sound traditional training to graduate students, attracted few young rebels to its courses. Last week the School of Architecture startled the U. S. building world by offering a professorship to Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school of architectural modernism known as the "International Style."* Herr Gropius, since 1934 a self-exile from Nazi Germany, cordially accepted...