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Seven days were required for the Democrats, after taking control of the House, to arrange their committee slate. Speaker Garner divided the plums according to the inviolate seniority rule. To the South went 27 committee chairmanships, to the North and West 20. New York and Texas could each boast of six committee chairmen...
...square base, constructed in brick, as is the rest of the building, tapers sharply towards the top, where the material to be used is wood and darker stone or slate. A belfry in the tower will contain the large bell now used in Harvard Hall; the spire will be topped with a weather vane...
Finally Yale is enjoying the last of autumn pageantry, whereas our north country already is drear with days like cold slate. It is pleasant to go from a dying season southward into...
...have performed an operation while lying flat on their backs. Last week near Mullens, W. Va., Dr. William Browning Davis was hurry-called to the bowels of a coal mine. A miner, one Aukstock Cotter, had been caught by the arms in the collapse of a corridor's slate roof. With an automobile jack his comrades had pried one arm free, but to free the other would topple down a mass of rock, kill the trapped man. Dr. Davis lay down and inched his way alongside the sufferer and, like an automobile mechanic unjointing a brake rod, amputated...
...Treasury had to borrow because it was living far beyond its means. Last year it piled up a $903,000,000 deficit. On July i it started over again with a clean fiscal slate. Last week the 1932 deficit rolled up during the first two months of the fiscal year amounted to $396,000,000 compared to $240,000,000 for the same period last year. If the July- August rate of spending was maintained, it meant that the Treasury would be more than $2,000,000,000 in the red next June 30. But Treasury actuaries explained that...