Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moton, for his work in race relations, went last week a gold medal and $1,000, the highest of sixteen Harmon awards for distinguished achievement among Negroes...
...Last week Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon announced that the Debt is now down to $16,300,921,501. During 1929 the reduction had been...
Prison reform was naturally Item No.1 on the political program at Albany last week when the legislature convened to receive the annual message of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Officials throughout the land pricked up their ears to hear what New York was going to do next about crime. To the legislature Governor Roosevelt proposed: 1) large additional appropriations for prison construction; 2) five emergency prison camps for outdoor work; 3) increase of prisoner's ration allowance from 21? to 26?; 4) more prudent selection and training of guards...
...unused to seeing the scars of War are employes at the U. S. Pension Bureau. But last week they looked, and looked at a face such as few of them had ever seen. Across the forehead was branded a huge double eagle, the wing tips reaching to the temples, the tail running half way down the nose. Beneath the branded eagle, faintly discernible, was the outline of a huge spider...
With ceremonious solemnity last week Secretary of State Stimson and Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.. signed an official document which added seven specks in the Sulu Sea to the U. S. domain. The specks were the Turtle Islands, southwest of the Philippines and some 20 miles off the North Borneo coast. The U. S. and Great Britain had at last agreed upon a boundary line between their possessions. Under the four-power Pacific Treaty of 1921, the U. S. is prohibited from using its new miniature archipelago as a naval base...