Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate. Vexed, the eleven Western Senators demanded public hearings before the Public Lands Committee. Hearings on Mr. Burlew meant hearings on the Interior Department, and Senators who are not fond of uppity Mr. Ickes have been itching to investigate that Department. Members of the Public Lands Committee cocked their cigars at a truculent angle and began to ask Mr. Burlew questions. Within two days they had turned up a story of the sort that investigating committees dream...
...inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys, for they are not paid through the Park Service. For three-and-a-half years Clerk Stitely led a more abundant life, collected 1,116 checks totaling...
...average questionnaire sent to college applicants in secondary schools is entirely inadequate. Very few Universities obtain detailed reports from a young man's school, from his family, or from outside individuals who know him well. Personal interviews, the best guide of all, are almost never required. Little attempt is made to obtain data on a student's background, his adjustability, his ability to get along with his contemporaries or his emotional make-up, and as a result many young men are "misfits" in college. The problems of a University like Harvard are vastly different from those of family and school...
...bird had been sent from the Lilly Orchard Company of Indianapolis, Illinois, by a former member of Leverett, and addressed to "Club 2", B42 Leverett House. The inhabitants of B42 disclaimed all responsibility, but Colonel Apted finally disposed of it by giving it away to Louis Hardy, the present janitor of University Hall...
...stomach was gargantuan, his entertainment expenses and the sales that followed were epic. The Brady fable got its pith from Charles A. Moore, founder of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, who took Brady on as a cub salesman in 1879 when the company was only a jobber for railroad supplies, sent Diamond Jim out on the road with instructions to spend all the money necessary to make customers like him. Diamond Jim stuck to this tenet through the panic of the middle nineties with such success that spending money to make money has been the Manning, Maxwell & Moore system to lick depressions...