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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had a boat ride on the Potomac, with famed old-time Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson autographing 300 gift baseballs for the Juniors. They had their own pretty-girl singers and band. They planted a hickory tree near the Washington Monument in soil from every State, Mrs. H. G. Courtney of Norwalk, Iowa, wielding the spade ably assisted by President Combs. They sang Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, using "heck"' to fill out the line, "What the - do we care!" Unlike city and town carriers, they did not agitate for a 40-hr. week, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL SERVICE: Post Offices on Wheels | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...dramatics, the Dramatic Club recently had a stormy year, including a number of mix-ups with women's colleges, with whom they were trying to put on shows. The final blow was when the Hygiene Building began to take over the Dramatic Club's home, known as "Big Tree," in the building. Thus there is never a dull moment for the actors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra-Curricular Positions Await 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...Oregon's Deschutes County last week, forest patrolmen, investigating a puff of smoke in the woods, found a hot meteorite imbedded in a tree. They described it as ''the size of a ten-quart water pail." Latest reports: no sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dollars from Heaven? | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Ohio's Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer was defeated in the gubernatorial primary in 1934 by Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey. Davey-"the best dressed Governor Ohio ever had," a good political showman but an administrator repeatedly charged with inefficiency or worse-has long impressed Democrat Sawyer as a grievous mistake. This year he ran against Governor Davey again in the Democratic primary. Helped by Labor, which disliked the Governor's interference in strikes, methodical Democrat Sawyer eliminated picturesque Democrat Davey, 449,000 to 419,000. Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Symbols & Shibboleths | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

From Washington came more spectacular news of the mischievous effects of limiting emergency power. Month ago, when a Lockheed 14-H (on Northwest Airlines' Flight Four from Seattle to Chicago) fetched up against a pine tree after taking off from the Billings Municipal Airport in Montana, all sorts of wild guesses were hazarded about the cause of the accident. Investigators of the Bureau of Air Commerce went to Billings and tried the experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety Anomalies | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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