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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During this period, he was in addition special agent for the United States Commission on Industrial Relations in 1914 and a member of the Council of National Defense in 1917, during the war. In 1918 he was chief of the section on production and statistics of the War Industries Board...
...among their fellows and usually in an unpleasant sense. At least this is the inference which might be taken from recent attacks on members and ex-members of the Harvard Law School. That some of them are incompetent and all of them are arrogant seems to be the cross-section of opinion in inferior court circles...
...conventionally educated New Englander the conception of a recent continental ice-sheet is familiar. This is supposed to have originated in the southwestern section of the Labrador Peninsula and to have swept south to Nova Scotia. Cape Cod, Long Island, northern Pennsylvania, and the Ohio valley; and recent studies, especially by Antevs, indicate that the front of this sheet began to rot approximately 25,000 years ago. As a natural outgrowth of this everyday conception, we are inclined to infer that all the region south of the entire Labrador Peninsula was similarly crossed and denuded by the last or Wisconsin...
...southern campaign was the weather. Dense fog, icy roads kept many from her meetings in Mattoon After, leaving a tiny audience at Olney, she found that the flooding Wabash had made her motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...
...Hubert's. Most important airport in Canada, most thoroughly equipped, is St. Hubert's across the St. Lawrence from Montreal. The main section was put into service last October, when the Montreal Light Aeroplane Club held a pretty air pageant to entertain the twoscore national air tour planes from the U. S. St. Hubert's has Canada's unique mooring mast, to accommodate the British dirigible R-100 if she crosses the Atlantic next May as planned. A hydrogen manufacturing plant stood nearly completed last week. New roads were being built from the airport...