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...asking that the principal of Home Owners' Loan Bonds be guaranteed just as Farm Mortgage Bonds were guaranteed two months ago: 2) ordered the Census Bureau to tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis for reapportionment for the State Legislature (a blow at Tammany) ; 3)announced that he would favor a law to prevent party officials, government officers and Congressmen from lobbying for government contracts, and also to outlaw professional lobbyists from similar employment...
...equip a factory to employ 125 men. To provide the factory with work, a provision was popped into the regular Post Office Appropriation bill to operate the factory and take over its output. Last week the House of Representatives dealt this favorite project of the First Lady a stiff blow...
...been estimated that about $100,000,000 has been invested in airports in different parts of the country. Many of the airport companies have indicated that the airmail situation is affecting them adversely. Indeed, commercial aviation has received a body blow from which it will not soon recover. The prospect of getting extra capital, which is needed from time to time in any growing industry, may also have been diminished by the erratic policy followed by the government in first stimulating the development of commercial aviation and then taking its principal support away and transferring the job to the army...
That night the eight Theta Chis who had been away returned to find a policeman barring their door. Sickening as a blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...
...land last week as the Senate Banking & Currency Committee let fly a final broadside before starting hearings this week on the securities control bill, Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, was quite aware that such a revelation would leave John Citizen convinced that Big Business had outdone itself in helping to blow up the speculative bubble of 1929. ''If the complete story were available, the amount would have been many times 20 billions of dollars," Inquisitor Pecora added. It would, according to Inquisitor Pecora's method of ciphering. "Other" (i. e. not bank) loans to brokers were a major...