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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easier for prospective homebuilders to finance their houses (TIME, Dec. 6). In the second, he asked Congress for a $112,000,000 reduction in Federal appropriations for road building, as a step toward a balanced budget in 1939. While the President and his party cruised about the Gulf Stream last week, daily messages from a temporary White House in the Miami-Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables, Fla. kept him informed about the repercussions of his messages in Washington...
Oldest anatomical research institute in the U. S., the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology is housed in a yellow brick, old-fashioned but scrupulously clean building in West Philadelphia. From the rumbling presses in its basement pours a stream of weighty periodicals: Journal of Morphology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, five others. These make dismal and mostly incomprehensible reading for laymen, but publication is the lifeblood of science and the specialists who read the Wistar publications understand and appreciate them...
...charge going to the paper which secures the original insertion. "Death Notice" Burns gets 80% of all original insertions because each morning he makes a shoptalk round of funeral parlors, calls morticians by their first names, after lunch goes to his Record desk where undertakers telephone a steady stream of death notices. Each evening he carefully follows every notice into the printed page, then trollies home at 1:15 a.m., sits up half-an-hour with a cigar for a final paternal check on the accuracy of the Record's death notice column...
Died. Tell Taylor, 61, composer of Down By the Old Mill Stream, which sold nearly 4,000,000 copies; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Judge Hincks was sternly critical of the Government's presentation as an attempt to "pollute the stream of justice." He accused the Government's attorney of trying to "smear an honest officer" in cross-examining a State police sergeant. He objected to the Government's lengthy charge that the defense had suppressed evidence without offering "a shred of support for the charge." But particularly annoying to the handsome, greying judge was the Government's plea to the jury to ignore the Court's charge. "[A judge] may fall into error," said Judge Hincks...