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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government has power to maintain accountants in his office, it could do likewise in all other business offices in the country-which would be " unthinkable." He also implied that Secretary Wallace has construed the recent Packers and Stockyards Act to be much broader in scope than the text of the Act justifies...
...inviting and urging him to deliver the oration. These were received in 1905 from Mr. Grosvenor S. Hubbard of New York, great-grandson of Governor Trumbull. Mr. Hubbard also gave the library a few years later a manuscript containing Judah Monts' "Hewbrew Grammar" and William Brattle's "Enchtridion Logicae," text-books then used in Harvard College, with other notes and lectures on natural philosophy written out by Jonathan Trumbull...
...France, Belgium, Italy a proposal that the inquiry or conference be held; these countries replied to Britain accepting the proposal " in principle"; Britain then submitted a draft of the invitation to be addressed to the U. S.; with "slight verbal changes " (by Belgium), Belgium and Italy approved the text of the invitation, but France knocked a lower card out of the house by insisting upon juxtaposing the words "present" and "capacity"; thereby causing the collapse of the whole structure...
...always intent upon inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention as well as painting. He has not produced a text or an encyclopedia, but tells only enough of an artist and his works to convey his spiritual and historical relations. He follows no set division, except a geographical one: in the present volume, Florence, Rome, Venice, Flanders, monarchical France, Reformation Germany...
...with the Advertising Department of Harper & Bros, publishers, this ingenious fellow hit upon the idea of combining a printed page with a phonograph record. From this the Bubble Books were evolved. You read aloud to the children a story from one of the volumes. At a certain point the text relates that the baby bear sang a song. There follows on the page a slot containing a phonograph record, which you play on the phonograph, thereby demonstrating what the baby bear sang. A running narrative with musical numbers is thus afforded-a species of small opera that calls for prolonged...