Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being anxious to frighten Great Britain and France before Munich, it is more than likely that his reports on German air strength which repolished his reputation last week were the same which helped to tarnish it a few weeks earlier. Certainly the German Government knew, if the U. S. public had forgotten, that Colonel Lindbergh is still an officer of the U. S. Air Corps Reserve, and a member of the Government-supported National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, whose function is to develop and gather aeronautical information...
Childless Felix Frankfurter is pleased when the hot dogs call him "Poppa." Some of their doings please Poppa completely. He is proud of the share Hot Dogs Cohen & Corcoran had in drafting the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Securities Exchange Act, both expressions of the Brandeis-Frankfurter economic crusade against bigness and irresponsibility. But NRA left Mr. Frankfurter cold and suspicious. And though he did not publicly attack the Court Plan, he wrote an indignant letter of repudiation when an article in a British magazine gave out that Protégés Cohen & Corcoran had helped originate...
...cases covering 1,845,818 workers closed during the year, 95% were settled by dismissal or withdrawal of union complaints, or by agreements between workers and employers without a hearing. In the remaining 5% were most of the cases which the public heard about...
...estimates put in by department heads calling for appropriations totalling $96,600,000. It was then that Businessman Heil came face to face with the political fact that some of the biggest items of government cost nowadays are the hardest to reduce. For example: pensions, relief and welfare, highways, public education...
Businessman Heil began budget hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure...