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...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
...from other papers)-which it proposed to issue. In an advertisement last week it claimed to have got back 173,006 cards authorizing newsdealers to begin delivering PM at readers' doors with its first issue this week. To those who had returned cards PM sent a "preview edition," Vol...
...parliamentary inquiry had foiled the Government in an effort to depot him from Britain because of his criticisms of British policy while working on a student publication. The facts may be an index to Mr. Poulson's arguments. The facts appear in Hausard's Commons Debates, Vol. 344, pp. 1921-22, 2366. Mr. Poulson had been admitted to Great Britain as a student--a status legally precluding his employment for remuneration. In conformity with law the Home Office subsequently rejected an application to engage Mr. Poulson on a student paper for 200 pounds a year. Later, however, when Mr. Poulson...
...property at $22 per carbine which he afterward bought from the Government at $3.50. Only after the "sale" was the purchase made, Morgan buying the carbines in Eastman's name with a payment of $17,486 (Senate Executive Documents No. 72, 37th Congress, 1861-62, 2nd Session, Vol...
...Government was not for payment on the second shipment but for balance due on the whole 5,000 carbines [when all had been delivered]. Ketchum testified that Morgan "refused to allow the others to go until he received the money for the first shipment" (House Reports, op. cit., Vol...