Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said North Carolina's Carter Warren: "Mr. Speaker, Harry is tired. He is 'wore out.' His feet hurt him. Now, you have got to come from my section or from Georgia or Mississippi to know what it means when an old colored man's feet begin to always hurt him." After a rousing demonstration that lasted a full minute, the House voted, 340-10-0, to create Harry janitor-emeritus of the Ways & Means Committee...
...when Herbert Hoover was President and the U. S. was worried about government deficits, Congress passed an economy bill. Its economies have long since been lost in the shuffle of the New Deal, but one of its provisions, relating not to economy but to spreading work, remains in force: Section 213 decrees that when dismissals from the Government service are made, the first to be fired shall be those who have either a husband or a wife on the payroll. Under it 1,835 employes have been dismissed, 80% of them wives. Loud have been the chants of opposition...
...Lockheed Electro, patched up, she took off in the opposite direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely to South America, Africa, India, Australia with a minimum of newspaper or public interest. July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from her about once an hour...
...convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy...
...Easter from way back, was born in Kennebunk, Me. in 1885, still spends his summers at Kennebunk Beach near his great & good friend Booth Tarkington, After graduating from Cornell (1908) he journalized on the Boston Post, Puck, Life. During the War he served as a captain in the Intelligence Section of the Siberian Expeditionary Force. For nine years after the Armistice he was roving correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, in which his stories are now usually serialized. With his wife and fox terrier, Roberts winters in a telephoneless Italian villa, works a heavy schedule the year round...