Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appropriations Committee presented to the House a third deficiency bill which: 1) knocked out the $20,000,000 Farm Tenancy program: 2) cut the Labor Relations Board's request for $1,800,000 in half; 3) denied the Agriculture Department $500,000 for the Great Plains shelterbelt tree plantings; 4) disapproved an additional $10,000.000 which Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy was seeking for his Maritime Commission. Total intended economies: about 30% of Budget Bureau estimates...
Died. Helen Maud Holt, Lady Tree, 72, actress, widow of the late, great actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; after an operation; in London...
This seemed to be the opinion of several hundred of Niemoller parishioners in tree-lined Dahlem, a Berlin suburb. When they met for Sunday morning service they heard delivered from the pulpit an announcement that enraged them-the special prayer meeting they had planned to hold that evening for their imprisoned leader had been banned by police...
...their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped the car to get a shave, load a passenger on the roof; Commuter Robert A. Cremins (The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang), flew into a pet; Fireman Jack Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That evening at the Pelham Country Club, Cartoonist Fox was guest of honor at a dinner. Next day his trolley was replaced by a shiny new omnibus...
...trouble. But Hellenistic Commodore Patterson brought his statue safely home, presented it to the flourishing young Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. For more than 40 years it stood in the Academy's courtyard at Tenth and Chestnut Streets under ''the largest hawthorn tree in America...