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...Bureau of Immigration and Bureau of Naturalization, put 275 employes out of work. The Interior Department took over all military parks, cemeteries and monuments, including the Statue of Liberty which had been in the Army's possession since 1886. Abolished was that butt of many jests, the National Screw Thread Commission created in 1918 to standardize nuts & bolts. Establishment of a unified Treasury agency for all government purchases was postponed until...
...keeping. Two years later, a Giant scout saw him pitching in Beaumont, Tex. and persuaded Manager John McGraw to hire him. In May 1929, in his ninth complete major league game, Carl Hubbell pitched a no-hit game against Pittsburgh. Lazy and solemn in action, particularly fond of a "screw-ball" which breaks sharply down and away from batters, Pitcher Hubbell thinks he has improved since then. Says he: "I have learned a lot ... and I feel stronger. It takes quite a while to learn how to pitch big-league baseball...
Providence is full of screw factories and steep nondescript streets. In the country there are no tawdry yellow lamps. There are a thousand trees, and each tree has a thousand thousand leaves, and each leaf falls to the ground where there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...
...cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock Saturday night was an executive order for minor Government reorganizations which the President estimated would save $25,000,000 per year. The Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization were to be merged. The National Screw Thread Commission was to be abolished. The Shipping Board's functions were to go to the Department of Commerce. By law the President had to submit his plan to Congress, to become effective in 60 days unless vetoed by a two-thirds vote. Blaming the pressure of other public...
...Political Monstrosities" Mr. Kent traces, with extraordinary insight and no mincing of words, the measures by which "cheap and shoddy fellows" viz. Huey Long, achieve real political power in a great state; how they work their publicity, and what can be done to stop them. The triple-screw steamturbined kingfish is shown up by a Voltaire come for judging. It is all "stagestuff," one knows already, but this article shows how it is staged and how received. The thick-skinned Longs and "Big Bill" Thompson are not able to differentiate between the kind of publicity they want when running...