Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, police arrested one Lester David O'Dell for writing a series of threatening letters to the President so persuasively phrased as to get past the secretariat which usually weeds such items out of the Presidential mail bag. In court, Magistrate Irving Ben Cooper recognized Correspondent O'Dell as a crank who had written similar letters to Mayor LaGuardia two years...
...Degrees Cooler Inside. BRRH!" Cooling Manhattan's Rivoli Theatre in 1925 cost $65,000 but the Rivoli got that back in the first three months. Carrier systems went into the ape-house of the New York Zoological Park, into the White House and the Senate chamber, into the Secretariat in Delhi, India, into the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. By 1929 Carrier Engineering Corp. was doing an $8,000,000 a year business and retaining $672,000 as profit. Formed in 1930 was the present Carrier Corp., a holding company. Then came Depression...
Naturally Franklin Roosevelt was angry and irritable. He barked orders at his private secretariat and in the confines of the Executive Offices made no secret of his intense resentment, but 24 hours after his defeat he had himself well under control when he met his regular press conference. As cheerful as usual, he delivered a homily on the Court situation, undertaking to look at it in historical perspective...
...year Reed rule against kudos in favor of five men and women who had never received an honorary degree. Among President Keezer's discoveries were the New York Times's Labor Reporter Louis Stark (see p. 41), LL.D., Rudolph Forster, senior member of the White House secretariat, LL.D., and Willard W. Beatty, Director of Education of the Office of Indian Affairs, Ed.D...
...ordered by the Lord for the Hebrew tribes, would not necessitate a huge expenditure. For the census, if undertaken by the constituted relief authorities, would not cost much more than the extra expense for stationery and cigars for the field force and light wines and beer for the secretariat...