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...Interior, but not one additional power is granted it. The other functions of the new department are as heterogeneous as the sources from which they are drawn. In brief it proposes to take over the Public Health Service, the Veterans' Bureau, the Civil War Pension Bureau, and numerous other stray functions which have been unwanted step-children to the departments that have administered them...
...long waiting list of these would be spectators grew considerably larger yesterday. As stray tickets are returned to the H. A. A. they are given out to the men on this list...
...life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...
...their votes-four of them had breakfasted at the White House. One Democrat, Ramsdell who had voted for the bill originally was paired against it. Senator Lenroot who has been ill, walked into the chamber apparently hale, and voted "Aye." Senator Green, struck down some weeks ago by a stray bullet in a bootlegger chase, tottered weakly to his seat, voted "No" as his name was called, and retired immediately.' The vote: Against Veto For Veto For Bonus Against Bonus...
...soft haze of romance that hangs over Monte Carlo, periodically-shattered by the moneyed persistence of stray American millionaires, may presently be brushed aside with the bourgeoise tricolor of France. This step is not prophesied for tomorrow, of course, but if Monaco follows the lead of several other microscopic principalities which have lately given up their independence, it will not be many years until the famous casino is nothing more than a grand old memory, and until the chants of the crouplers are embalmed in the of the cropiers are embalmed in the folk lore of the countryside...