Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing. We think he showed more wisdom that some other Governors-he implored Governor Sterling of Texas admittedly the key man of the key State to call a conference of Governors and their Commissioners of Agriculture in Memphis -specified NO SPEECHES, a two-day session to formulate a concerted, uniform program for the South in the cotton crisis. We think subsequent events have proven him more nearly right than other-some of whom have called legislatures, passed "No Cotton Laws" based on 75% of the producing States doing the same. Texas then upsets the plans by passing a 30% acreage...
...writer's untrained eye, much like a stuffed restoration of the dodo which is prominently displayed in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh bird differs from the Iowa reproduction principally in having a feathered tail instead of the cottontail effect, the coloring is apparently somewhat more uniform and there are slight differences above the eyes. Why then can Iowa claim "the only Stuffed replica in the world of the dodo?". . . L. L. NETTLETON Pittsburgh, Pa. There is also a reconstructed dodo in the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. The Iowa Museum, however, lays claim to possessing...
Died. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, 65, in Flatow, Germany. He was a cousin of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II who once boxed his ears, tore the decorations from his uniform, banished him from the army and Germany for beating Princess Louisa Sophie (his wife) with a riding whip. He was known as "Europe's greatest spendthrift." In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession...
While the story Mr. Flynn tells is true he offers no alluring remedies. He does, however, make a few improving suggestions. Among these: that corporations should adopt uniform accounting methods (a suggestion made last week by Gerard Swope-see p. 16); that lists of stockholders should be made public; that directors should be drafted from genuine investors in the company, not tycoons who may have other interests at heart or who pay no attention to the position. He would have no holding companies, would have no company own stock in another except in rare cases. As for general Cumshavian tendencies...
...South and appealed to President Hoover for a special cotton session of Congress on the ground that the problem was national and international. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma (estimated crop: 1,254,000 bales) talked about a stiff tariff on long staple cotton, vaguely praised "uniform laws...