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...Federal Farm Board; $19,000,000 for the 1930 Census and House Reapportionment; $4,500,000 for eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida; $1,000,000 for pay increases to legislative employes; $1,000,000 for legislative expenses, includ- ing $360,000 for publication of the Congressional Record, $200,000 for compilation and publication of tariff information, $226,000 for "mileage." The Senate's vote to adjourn, after its refusal to do so last fortnight, came suddenly, unexpectedly. The band of two dozen "Young Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate...
...their late benefactor's sausage plant.* So that St. Mark's boys may be further pork-conscious, each year on Founder's Day suckling pig is served. Eight or ten times in the school year Headmaster Thayer leaves school to marry his alumni. Imposing is his record at socialite weddings, for loyal St. Mark's grooms will have no other cleric. Literate St. Marksmen remember his fondness for Robert Burns, whose poetry he reads to favorites. On Sundays before Christmas he reads Dickens' Christmas Carol to Upper Formers, who crowd the window seat and fender...
...Forty billion was the round number of francs in the gold reserve of the Bank of France last week?record for all time ?equivalent...
...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...
This specimen was the basis for the first scientific description of the genus gorilla on record. Dr. Wyman delivered a speech describing the gorilla to the Boston Society of Natural History. As time went on, and other specimens were discovered, they were sent back to museums on the continent of Europe and to England, as well as to the United States...