Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Budget. Fiscal reform accompanied administrative under the Smith regime. Governor Smith was presently to submit to the Legislature his state's first Executive Budget, certifying the state's needs "in the order of their importance" as determined by a special bureau. The Legislature had power to reduce, but not increase items, and to add items subject to the Governor's veto...
Before coming to Harvard eight years ago Mr. Fradd worked in France for two years, reconstructing the postures of American Soldiers. His work at Harvard consists in building up the inefficient bodies of Freshmen by special exercise...
...roamed the streets all night, fear wrapping cold fingers about my brow and the cold sweat on my heart. But with morning came relief. At that time I remembered suddenly, they were filling in the last of the made land in the Back Bay. I got a special interview with the Mayor, and he ordered a fleet of dump carts to leave for Cambridge, with me as pilot...
Frank Arthur Vanderlip to a special partnership in Campbell, Starring & Co. Mr. Vanderlip was, from 1909 to 1919, president of the National City Bank in Manhattan, a post from which he retired to his estate at Scarborough-on-Hudson. Now 63 and bored with retirement, he is investing capital in Campbell, Starring & Co. and will furnish his partners business & financial advice from his ample store...
...first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...