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...Interior Department President Hoover created an Assistant Secretary for Public Works to whom was to be transferred: 1) river & harbor development and flood control, from the War Department; 2) office of the Supervising Architect, from the Treasury; 3) Public roads, from the Department of Agriculture; 4) some half-dozen small independent building agencies...
...little doubt that headache would attain this unenviable distinction," wrote Columbia University's Professor Henry Alsop Riley last week.* Therewith he presented a 116-page summary of what is known about "the most baffling and dramatic form of pain in the head"- migraine. Professor Riley and a half-dozen other able investigators† are trying to solve the problem, with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation paying the expenses of the study. Professor Ludwig Kast of New York Post-Graduate Medical School is coordinating their work...
...films cost New Haven $3 a pupil last year. The 60? rate is possible because a New York photo-engraver mused. Three Powers brothers own & operate Powers Photo Engraving Co., one of the nation's biggest & best, and a half-dozen allied concerns. Brother Augustin Jay Powers, president, has currently been functioning as publicity man for New York City Democrats. Brother John Michael Powers is the financial man of the three. Brother Frank Thomas Powers, 50, is the tinkerer. Four years ago Tinkerer Frank Powers, to cheapen production costs in the Powers plants, which use thousands of photographs...
...half-dozen little Kansas towns, just before each sundown last week, a great melancholy voice was heard wailing sad cowboy songs through the ochre twilight. Citizens investigating the cause of this portent, successively at Liberal, Coldwater, Salina, Herington, discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first...
After three months of marching and countermarching and a half-dozen major battles. Brazil's civil war ("bloodiest in South American History") ended last week. Rich, coffee-growing Sao Paulo lost its attempt to regain control of the Federal Government. General Bertholdo Klinger, No. 1 rebel, onetime chief of Rio de Janeiro police, laid down his arms. Colonel Herculaneo Carvalho headed a temporary military government for Sao Paulo state. No accurate casualty lists were published on either side. For Brazil as a whole the civil war has had one beneficial result: The blockade of the port of Santos boosted...