Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 to let out 5,000 civilian arsenal employes. Charlotte, Denver, Des Moines, El Paso, Galveston, Indianapolis. Milwaukee, Mobile, Salt Lake City and Wilmington lost Department of Commerce district trade offices. Behind all this general shakedown in Government service lay these cold facts: ¶ The 1933 budget deficit was $1,786,000,000 (receipts: $2,080,000,000; expenditures: $3,866,000,000). The 1932 deficit...
...Kansas City, Missouri, George F. Tittmann of St. Louis, Missouri, Egbert W. Fischer of Butte, Montana, Paul J. Allen of East Barington, New Hampshire, Douglas W. Overton of Concord, New Hampshire, Ramon N. Svoboda of Prague, Oklahoma, Richard M. Ballou of Providence, Rhode Island, John B. Hickam of Galveston, Texas, Lemuel Bowden, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia, John H. Gilbert of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Frank A. Welty, Jr. of Dubois, Wyoming, John T. Repun of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Lorne Rickert of Kitchener, Ontarie, Canada, Justin J. Thackara of Etretat, France
...futures market, was the heaviest in two years. Even on the spot exchanges in many towns & cities of the South the cotton boom brought wild trading. Atlanta reported more buying orders handled in the last two weeks than in the previous six months. From Mobile, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from the humble renter to the big plantation owner. Anderson Clayton...
...made recently in TIME that Capt. Vernou is now aide to the President (TiME, May 30). For personal reasons I would like to know the parentage of Capt. Vernou. May Vernou, a daughter of Capt. Vernou of the 19th U. S. Infantry, was a schoolmate of mine in Galveston, Tex., in the '80's. She married an officer of the U. S. Army, whose name I do not recall, and died not long afterwards. As a subscriber in good standing would appreciate a TIME pencil, as mentioned in the issue of June 13, p. 2. MRS. GEORGE WILLRICH...
...exhibit opened with a reception at which platters of sweetmeats and little cups of Turkish coffee were handed round by Miss Angela Mulinos, an Attic beauty who was "Miss Greece" at the 1930 Galveston International. Speeches were made by Professor Demetrios Tselos of Princeton, Vice Consul Konstantine Konstandas. The guest of honor (who was unfortunately unable to be there because of a pressing engagement to wrestle in Toronto) was lion-chested Christopher Theophilus, more widely known as Jim Londos, world's heavyweight wrestling champion. High above the clink of coffee cups sounded the praises of Greek artists, poets, professors...