Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DRUMS IN THE BALKAN NIGHT-John I. B. McCulloch-Putnam ($3). A seasoned U. S. honeymooner in the Balkans since 1934 amateur Journalist McCulloch recalls his experiences in a chatty omnibus devoted to his sightseeing, anecdotes of political figures, his interviews with King Boris, the late Venizelos, Dowager Queen Marie...
...Price's newest book is Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter.* Published in the U. S. last month, this is an omnibus memoir of his experiences, theories, accomplishments. The author follows the terminology of both spiritualists and scientific investigators by not calling anything"supernatural." For those phenomena which cannot be explained by the known laws of Nature he reserves the term supernormal. He considers that at least 999 out of 1,000 of the wonders produced at spiritualistic seances are tricks. What will surprise many a reader is that, with his almost endless experience of frauds, Mr. Price is willing...
...Omnibus Flood Control bill, authorizing $320,000,000 for reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed...
...suggestion that the two half courses be converted into a single full course of the omnibus variety is a very practical one. Undoubtedly a full course organized in this way would not attain the popularity of Psychology A. But at least a graduate of the elementary course would no longer come forth with his taste for psychology blunted through innocuous teaching, or with the conviction that he really knew something about the subject, merely because of the course's superficiality. The harm done either the concentrator or the non-concentrator in either case is as obvious as it is destructive...
...exact two-thirds vote had convicted Judge Ritter on this omnibus charge. Newshawks hastily checked to see what changes had caused his conviction: Senator McNary who had voted "guilty" on the first count had voted "not guilty" on the last; Senators Pittman and Minton who voted ''not guilty'' on the first count had changed to "guilty'' on the seventh...