Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Left vacant by graduating members of the Senior Class will be approximately 500 places of which Eliot and Lowell House have the largest number, 93 and 90 respectively. At Winthrop and Dunster there will be room for 64, and at Leverett and Adams...
...wrote Franklin Roosevelt last week consenting to the retirement of John Gilbert Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board. At the same time he boosted Board Member Arthur J. Altmeyer to Mr. Winant's job, appointed Murray W. Latimer, now chairman of the Railroad Retirement Board to the vacant place on Social Security...
...father. But his love for his flighty wife never wavered. After she had left him for the last time he wrote her: "There is no end to my need of you. My thoughts are near you and with pain do I think of our everlasting separation; especially do your vacant, dismantled rooms sadden me. . . ." He was writing to her again ("Farewell with God, beloved angel, I embrace you with my whole heart. . . .") when she lay dying in Geneva, stabbed by a political assassin. The news, Franz Joseph thought, filled his cup. And he was right. In 1916, before he could...
...Franklin Roosevelt's sub-Cabinet last week a long-vacant place was filled, a long-filled place was vacated. For nearly twelve months since T. Jefferson Coolidge resigned because he disliked the New Deal's mounting debts, the job of Under Secretary of the Treasury had been vacant. Last week, giving up futile efforts to find for the job an expert in the technique of floating Government bonds who had no connection with Wall Street, the President sent to the Senate the name Roswell Foster Magill. Not a bond expert but a tax expert...
...simplifying the tax laws to save taxpayers much needless litigation; putting the Bureau of Internal Revenue on a career instead of patronage basis; an entirely new method of taxing capital gains. Not since Congress in 1930 created the job of Director of the Bureau of Prisons has it been vacant...