Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury, vacated last January by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge after he split with the Roosevelt Administration over U. S. financial policies. Last week Washington newshawks obligingly sent out the following, at the facetious suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau: "Wanted: Outstanding financial and Government bond expert worth $25,000 to $100,000 annually, willing to work for $10,000 a year as Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Good opportunity for reliable man. Must be willing to work. References required. Apply H. Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, Washington...
...more than half of downtown Philadelphia's retail trade, had customers by the hundreds turn away from their doors. After a few trucks had been overturned, deliveries came virtually to a-halt. At week's end union officials claimed the stores had lost $1,000,000 worth of sales. Dumbfounded were their owners, who had been confident that the city would forbid mass picketing. Instead, Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who devoted his main speech before the U. S. Conference of Mayors in Washington last week to boasting the efficiency of his personal Labor Relations Board, proved more than...
...Philadelphia Co. sold $200,000 worth of bonds of the midtown Sylvania Hotel when back taxes were unpaid. The company's President Thomas Shallcross Jr. admitted this violation of the law was "a very poor practice...
Actually Harvard puts more emphasis on sanitary conditions in its kitchens than any similar institution. Care is taken not only to guard the food itself, by buying from firms of known repute and subjecting the purchases to frequent chemical analyses to prove their worth, but also the staff mit to regular examinations. Yet even the most who cook and serve in the halls are made to sub-modern scientific precautions have failed to protect the University at all times, and infections like the present one have inevitably crept...
...itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame will do for a scene that was never thought worth noticing before...