Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guest bows-and soon finds himself in the Genoese velvet Green Room. Just beyond is the spacious, cream-paneled East Room with gold damask draperies and twelve Æsop's Fables in low relief. Here amid more potted palms, the line of march disperses...
...Black Hills. 1927 started off with President Coolidge's vehement veto and denunciation of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
...them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed and later accepted when higher postal rates were provided to meet the cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto...
...Junior divisional examination, then, sets up a false distinction for the specialist by eliminating the honors degree for the student with a broad interest in his field. More than this, it offers a convenient relief from extended general work to many who accept readily the label of "candidate for honors". What may seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves...
...years before it is perfected. That is the use of photo-composing instead of metal composing. Instead of producing a column of metal type, we will have a machine which produces a strip of film. The offset process will have to be used instead of the present relief process. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the concerns interested in abolishing the present costly and wasteful system of printing...