Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Level. Before the War the cost of the Federal establishment ran about three-quarters of a billion annually. The War left it perched on a four-billion level. Depression has jacked it up once more. In his opening message to Congress the President said it was impossible to reduce Federal expenditures "much below $7.000,000,000 a year without destroying essential functions or letting people starve...
...Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right of the police to limit the number of pickets. Total arrests ran above...
...press cars reached the little village of Caude, five miles northwest of Teruel, they stopped for one which had lagged behind. Cigarets were lit. From one of the cars a young man ran forward to give his friends in a car ahead a bar of chocolate...
George Horace Lorimer was editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to Dec. 31, 1936. He was a man who looked like a bulldog and he ran the Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge...
...Manhattan's 69th Street last week, in a white-tiled studio which was once a garage, a rangy man who looks a little like Abraham Lincoln and more like the Pied Piper ran his fingers through his long grey hair, folded his arms, grinned, yelled, gestured, strode to & fro, swung his spectacles. On this occasion Photographer Edward Steichen was not engaged in conjuring life out of some apathetic sitter. He was helping several assistants dismantle his studio for good. As of Jan. 1, 1938, Edward Steichen was through with commercial photography...