Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The first week's disclosures before the Senate's lobby committee, observers thought, seriously imperiled the whole tariff bill now before the Senate. Vague and generalized have been the charges heretofore that special interests exert special influence through lobbyists to obtain special tariff favors. Now opposition Senators were supplied with damning specifications for use in debate. Every tariff increase was suspect. The investigating committee tasting blood, was in full bay after that prime tariff lobbyist, Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the American Tariff League. The rotund Grundy shadow has moved about the Capitol almost...
...Investigated, by special committee, the activities of lobbyists...
Curley Pickett has been a farm hand for the last two years in Corsicana, Tex. Before that he was an elephant trainer for the Al. G. Barnes circus where his special charge was Black Diamond, a land elephant. Last week Farm Hand Pickett, learning that the old circus was coming to town, invited his employer, Mrs. Eva Donohue, to see Black Diamond. When they arrived at the circus the elephants were being unloaded. They stood by and watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over...
...walked four miles every hour since he was two and able to romp, not yet would he have trod 1,250,000 miles. 170 Passengers, greatest air load ever, flew for 100 miles over Lake Constance, Switzerland, on a trial flight of the 12-motored Dornier DO-X. Football Specials. Colonial Air Transport last week decided to operate special planes to Boston and New Haven for big football games there. Great Lakes Aircraft at Cleveland decided to send at least one plane to Ohio State University's major games at Columbus...
...arrangement to show the pictures has been made through the great kindness of C. R. Post, professor of Greek and Fine Arts, who has been assembling a special collection of movies gathered for the last few years for the significance of the art exhibited in them. The pictures to be shown are mostly ones made in the period before 1926, just before the beginning of the advent of talkies, at which time the silent drama had reached a high point from an artistic point of view. At the present time Professor Post is adding certain of the talkies...