Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they earn. Last year, it was announced, the postal service had run 137 million dollars into the red, which President Hoover considered a lamentable showing for the only "business" arm of a Government which its officials, in moments of pride, like to call "the biggest business organization in the world." Promptly President Hoover summoned to the White House Postmaster General Walter Brown and his four assistant postmasters general, told them something had to be done to reduce these ever-increasing shortages, to put the postal service on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. What concerned the President chiefly...
...bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless husbandry is accorded better protection (see p. 12). ¶ When...
...Agriculture announced crop estimates. Forecast was a wheat harvest of 834,000,000 bushels (1928: 902,000,000 bu.; 1927: 878,000,000 bu.). Great had been the crop shrinkage since the spring estimates. Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance since the disastrous drop of May. Oldtime traders looked for even better prices, gossiped about $2 wheat...
...said: "Well, I should'a thought they'd let an old man like you get off a bit earlier than this." But to Charles Prestwich Scott work was life. He became the Guardian's editor at 26. He set out to make it one of the world's great newspapers. He succeeded at no expense to his Liberal views or any cause he thought right...
...Chicago, plans were afoot last week for a World's Fair Symphony Band, to be sent, after a Chicago contest, to other U. S. cities to advertise the 1933 World's Fair. Chicago musicians, under famed U. S. bandmasters, will compete this summer in Chicago parks. The Fair-conscious Chicago Daily News guaranteed funds for five concerts, published a plea for funds for 40 more...