Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco Symphony until Dobrowen returns from guest-conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra during Leopold Stokowski's winter furlough...
...real or imaginary, acquired in peacetime. President Roosevelt would weed out thousands more before Oct. 31 to bring pension economy up to $350,000,000. Of the 440,000 men & women who serve the Federal Government (outside the Army & Navy), about 20,000 were scheduled for discharge or indefinite furlough. Big droppings: Prohibition Bureau, 1,300: Coast Guard, 1,600; Navy yards. 4,700: Customs, 640; Commerce Department. 500; Public Health Service, 500; Interstate Commerce Commission, 600; Government Printing Office, 400; Internal Revenue. 580. Air mail contracts were being sliced 25%. 5,000 route miles eliminated.* The Army was ready...
...House: ¶ Passed (249-to-118) a $543,000.000 Independent Offices appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. A substitute for the measure vetoed March 4 by President Hoover, the bill lopped $451,000,000 off veterans' payments and authorized the President to cancel Government contracts, furlough Army officers on half-pay, retire Federal employes after 30 years civil service and cut Army & Navy flying...
...conclusion, daring. The Eagle and the Hawk is worth seeing. Gary Grant gives a sound performance as Jerry Young's bloodthirsty gunner. Jack Oakie's customary comedy role-of a young man overcome by breezy concupiscence-fits in well. Good shot: March, off for London on furlough, taking leave of Oakie, lounging in a bathtub on the lawn outside his quarters...
...Adventure tells of a flight across the Sahara, from Paris to Timbuctoo and back. Seabrook wanted to go to Timbuctoo to see Pére Yakouba. famed renegade French priest (their first meeting is described in Jungle Ways). Flight Captain Rene Wauthier of the French Army, then on furlough, offered to fly him there in his plane. Third member of the party was Marjorie Worthington, U. S. writer. In luxurious comfort they slid down across France, bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays...