Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Koch was the man who had given him his Com-mission job-William Burgess of Pennsylvania, onetime (1921-1925) Tariff Commissioner, now vice-president of U. S Potters Association. Lobbyist Burgess, now 72, denied he was a lobbyist, but explained that the potters paid him $7,500 per year to represent them in Washington. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association paid him $2,500 for the same purpose and the National Association of Wool Manufacturers $1,800. He also did business on a contingent basis for the greeting card industry. He had, he said, gotten his start in Washington by means...
...praised his work as "splendid" and assured him that he had "made good" and given the association "more than we ever bargained for." Employment of Eyanson by Senator Bingham produced financial complications. As the manufacturers' agent. Lobbyist Eyanson was continuously paid by them his salary ($10,000 per year). As a Senate clerk he also signed the U. S. payroll and drew a salary at the rate of $3,000 per year from the Government. This he turned over to another Bingham clerk. After he had left Washington in August, Senator Bingham sent him a personal check...
...members, a gain of 37,482 in the last year...
...Yellow Springs, Ohio is famed for its curious plan of study, an experimental system far beyond the wildest dreams of famed Educator Horace Mann, its first President (1853-59). At Antioch, co-educational since 1921, students are divided into two divisions, A & B. In alternating five-week periods, all year round, while one division is at school, the other is working. The A students study while the B students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers...
Like Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review, its ancient rivals, the Edinburgh Review matured, grew old, sedate. Last week its editors sadly confessed: "Modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year for observations on life, letters, history and society." They announced the Review's demise...