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...potent party propagandist among women. Distributed among 3,000 Democratic women's clubs were millions of copies of her pamphlets on the oil scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication in 1932. In 1928 Democrat Banister was strongly anti-Smith but cast no vote. She was on the Roosevelt bandwagon early...
...used as a serving room in the days when Memorial Hall was used as the College Commons. Alterations in the room will be made during the Summer so that it will be ready for use by students in Naval Science I next autumn. The room will be equipped with chart tables for use in instruction in Navigation...
...States Government has . . . taken a step backward into the darkness of the Middle Ages," snapped crusty old Editor Jacob Seibert last week in his Commercial & Financial Chronicle, referring to the decision to pay Government gold bond interest in paper dollars. But U. S. Business took a big step forward. Chart-watchers throughout the land happily eyed certain thick black indexes creeping slowly above the line of May 1932. For the first time in four long years of Depression, they said, U. S. Business was definitely better than it had been twelve months before. Automobile production for the third successive week...
Like the fever chart of a sick giant, the Federal Budget continued to make news last week about the public credit of the U. S. On April 18 the red line of the deficit broke through the billion-&-a-half-dollar mark for the first time in fiscal 1933. On that day Federal outgo ($3,102,172,570) since July 1, 1932 exceeded Federal income ($1,598,325,881) by $1,503,846,689.* The Public Debt stood at $21,452,266,588, an increase of $1,965,263,144 in the form of borrowings to meet current expenses since...
When the Leonid meteors coursed through the upper air last November, Astronomer Olivier had 14 scattered observers chart the meteor trails. Comparison of data showed the meteors traveling 90 to 142 m. p. h. The faster ones began to glow from atmospheric friction when 84 mi. from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind...