Word: sectioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army could not get enough Springfield rifles at home, had to turn to European suppliers. Important in industrial as well as military mobilization is a Selective Draft Act prepared for passage on M Day. Key provision so far as U. S. industry and labor are affected is a section authorizing draft boards to "exempt" any designated civilian from military service. In practice, this would mean not exemption but civilian service wherever the War Department thinks the citizen should be, would prevent a shortage of skilled labor and executive personnel in vital industries and areas. The Social Security Board...
...Section 208, Title 18 of the Federal criminal code declares it unlawful for any Senator, Representative, "officer or employee of the United States" to solicit political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey...
Housed in the new Interior Building's seventh-floor penthouse, the studio is planned for the launching of new ideas in Government broadcasting. The idea man is Shannon Allen, acting radio section director of the Interior Department's Division of Information. A onetime NBC production man, he has the job of coordinating broadcasting activities of all Interior Department bureaus, furnishing radioactive bureau heads with the professional touch. For the dry statistical reports that are now the rule, Director Allen hopes to substitute dramatic treatment, has issued script samples to educate officials. Sample sample for a disquisition on reclamation...
...foundation for Delaware's crippled children and aged poor. For this foundation, the $300,000 mausoleum will be the architectural centre. It was reported last week that as soon as workmen finish waterproofing the vaults, Jessie Ball du Pont, A. I.'s widow, may have a section of Nemours' high wall knocked down to allow public inspection of the tomb...
...they pulled in was the tail-section, up to the ventral rudder fins, of a blue marlin which would easily have broken all northern-water records...