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While he lived. Boss Long never ceased crying that the income tax investigation was a monstrous New Deal conspiracy to "get'' him. Last week there was no evidence that his removal had in any way cooled the Government's ardor. To supplant the local U. .S. District Attorney as prosecutor, it had taken onetime (1930-33) National Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock away from his duties as president of St. John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...
Many an educator's imagination has been tickled by the idea that radio would some day become the most powerful medium at his command. A few rash professors predicted that it would supplant lectures and textbooks in the colleges...
...that this should be brought about by increased salaries, to attract men of superior talents, improvement and extension of training, and the creation of a personnel unit under the supervision of a deputy commissioner responsible for the selection and training of recruits and management of matters of personnel to supplant the present Civil Service Commission...
...classification of semi-refined and hence out of the Commission's reach. The new law becomes effective Dec. 25. Hoping that this will ruin Christmas for all Texas hot oil experts, the oil industry last week was talking of pacts between the oil States to supplant ineffectual Federal control of interstate...