Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman John Jackson McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee also felt the sting of the President's fretfulness last week. In February, during executive hearings before the Committee, Brigadier General Charles Evans Kilbourne, then Chief of War Plans Division, advanced a plan for seven air defense centres, observing that the one near Canada could be "camouflaged" as an "intermediate station for transcontinental flights." Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Chief of General Headquarters Air Force, had declared that in case of war, certain British islands off the U. S. might have to be seized. By a clerical blunder, these...
...bright May day warmed up. United Press reported the fainting in pack-jammed London crowds of 7,000 women, quickly resuscitated by mobile Red Cross units. The first of the seven State Processions converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
...early training in chemistry led him to the perfume business. Knowing U. S. socialites' awe of royalty, he was careful to see that every one of his packages was liberally sprinkled with crowns, with PRINCE MATCHABELLI in large type. He died six weeks ago in Manhattan, had seven Russian princes, Conde Nast and the Hearst Press's Cholly Knickerbocker among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate with Prince Matchabelli...
...promoted after reaching a certain grade. The bureau has taken in $8,000,000 more than it has spent, pays the largest printing bill of any Government bureau, trains patent lawyers, stays constantly behind in its work, resists the onslaught of its critics, continues to grant more & more patents. Seven hundred thousand patents are now in force...
...biggest perpetual-motion men of recent years turned up his nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress...