Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother, Otho C., whom I sent to California on my auto work and who there connected with capital to build gasoline engines. He followed them with rock drills, presses giving unheard-of high powers, improved wood distilling and now an underframe for railway cars that is revolutionary. I still remain the dub who thought people desired cheap transportation only to see them adopt "traveling houses" finished and upholstered better than their homes and furniture...
...union agents made great progress below the Potomac River. Next step was to do something for their new members and United Textile Workers' President, genial, well-dressed old Tom McMahon, issued an ultimatum that working hours might be cut from 40 to 30 hours but weekly wages must remain the same. General Johnson called him in, soothed him down with a compromise: 1) an investigation to see whether the industry could afford higher wages; 2) a place for a representative of his union on the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board. To add to U. T. W. prestige President McMahon himself...
...President Roosevelt to Carrollton, III for the funeral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey, brought him back to Washington again after 30 minutes in the Rainey parlor. Two days later, the President left the White House again, this time for Hyde Park and his mother's home where he will remain until Washington cools...
...ambassadors of Great Powers to the Court of St. James's could not quite manage to remain aloof and silent last week as preparations got under way at historic Hastings to choose a new "Miss Europe...
...none of these vaccines is it claimed that it will cure infantile paralysis, once the disease has set in. And even the power of these vaccines to prevent the disease will remain theoretical until a large community of children receive injections before the infantile paralysis season reaches its peak in summer. If the incidence of the disease then shows a marked drop below normal, all humanity may have good reason to salute Professor John Albert Kolmer...