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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Added years make it impossible for me to assume now the official responsibilities of leadership as I did prior to 1921, but I am ready now. as then, to serve the cause. Necessarily the service to be rendered must be limited in scope to advising from time to time when requested on questions of major policy. Such service I am now rendering through Mr. [Felix M.] Warburg to the Jewish Agency.† Such service I can render also to the Z. O. A. In my opinion, it will be far more effective if rendered to an administration formed...
...until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances. Prior to this time saltpetre, carbon, sulphur made up the colorless displays. As various metal salts were discovered they were introduced to make colors in fireworks. Strontium and lithium salts give red: barium and copper, green; other copper salts blue. Last great advance was the discovery that magnesium and aluminum salts impart white brilliance to fireworks...
Some time prior the Committee had heard Lawyer Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York political giftmaker, testify that he had contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon's anti-Smith Presidential campaign in Virginia (May 19). While on its face nothing was wrong with this contribution, it was mostly in cash, and Wisconsin's Senator John James Elaine, Mon tana's Senator Thomas James Walsh, the only lobby lions present, apparently thought something pertinent to their investigation lay hid behind...
...enter the cage, forgetting to drop the steel door which would have confined the bear to the cave. As he leaned over to arrange the feeding pans the bear slipped up, grasped him with her powerful forelegs, crushed him to death. Thus, she evened the scores. A few days prior her two cubs had been taken away from...
...George Dasch of the Chicago Little Symphony. It made a grand and noisy conclusion to the second annual national high school orchestra contest, held under the auspices of the National Society for the Advancement of Music. The players were high-school students from all over the U. S. who, prior to the amalgamation of their talents, had competed with the following results: Class A orchestras?Lincoln, first (Lincoln won also last year at the contest held in Iowa City); Hammond, Ind., second; the John Adams High School of Cleveland, third; Class B orchestras? Dearborn, Mich., first, the Lew Wallace High...