Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff-necked race. Of the Jan. 24 issue you administer "a shocked reproof" to them for mistaking the anniversary the Jackson Day dinners celebrate. And on page 12 of the same issue these same recidivists say "Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners...
...Lincoln by his Emancipation Proclamation deprived more people of property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners. Last week, to the Republican State Central Committee in Michigan came an idea for using Lincoln's feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used not to pay Republican debts but to relieve...
...quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...
...Yorker fulminated tiredly, but the first person to do anything about the plates was a 42-year-old unemployed boiler mechanic of White Plains, one Martin McBohin, a Wartime Marine sergeant. Last week Martin McBohin stuck adhesive tape over the offensive lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More...