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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gennerich wheeled him up the ramp from the colonnade into the new office building. President Roosevelt was beaming with happy expectation. So were the 120 members of the "gang," as Louis Howe calls the White House office force. They were delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace...
Died. Arthur R. Seyferlich, 64, Fire Commissioner of Chicago; of diabetic gangrene following a leg infection; in a Chicago hospital. Fortnight ago doctors told Seyferlich a leg amputation was necessary to save his life. Cried he: "A one-legged fireman is no fireman at all. I'll die before you cut my leg off." Fireman Seyferlich died with two legs...
Though Author Werfel's scene centres on a Syrian mountain top it takes in glimpses of a wider view. In Istanbul, Berlin and Antioch German missionaries and consuls, God-fearing Moslems, meddle dangerously with high-tension wires to save a race condemned by cold policy. Not all his Turks are smoothly smiling villains nor all his Armenians embattled heroes. More than a stirring tale, a passionate defense of a persecuted minority, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has implications that make it unwelcome in Germany...
...bonds were guaranteed by the Government only as to interest. Therefore Congress at its last session guaranteed them as to principal as well. Chairman Stevenson was replaced by John H. Fahey and soon HOLC was going great guns. By last week HOLC had dispersed $2,000,000,000 to save no less than 650,000 homes...
...kilowatt hour in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England could be cut to 3½? and still leave the private utilities a "fair" profit. By certain accounting formulas which left utility operators blinking in amazement, Mr. Walsh calculated that development of the St. Lawrence Waterway power would save consumers in those States no less than $194,000,000 annually...