Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House last week marched two Senators-Jones of Washington, Walsh of Montana; and two Representatives-Til-son of Connecticut, Garner of Texas. They came to perform a traditional ceremony- notification of the President that Congress was about to adjourn. Congressman Tilson truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn occasion could do to keep from outright laughter. Senator...
...Pennsylvania Railroad revealed that as part of its $100,000,000 electrification program it will soon order 150 giant electric locomotives to cost $16,000,000. At the Railway Association meeting in Chicago other lines gave estimates of their budgets, indicated 1930 railway expenditure of from...
...Bloomingdale's, Manhattan department store, planned to complete its $5,500,000 building program in three instead of five years...
...Paramount). As Stage Producer Jed Harris' first play, when it was called Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, this was a gentle story about some young people who worked in a department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar...
...there in the midst of the new House Plan the Vagabond will pass the winter months. And from there he will perhaps be able to impart to his earnest readers a bit of, as it were, inside information on the new building program. That is to say, all this will happen if the Bursar's office does not jack up his rent once more and turn the old fellow out in the teeth of a winter's gale...