Uncle Sam Wastes a Billion Annually on Government
A critical look argues the federal government wastes at least one billion dollars yearly. It cites bloated salaries, overlapping agencies, and sprawling offices as roots of inefficiency, with calls for consolidation and cuts across departments and programs.
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Sam
Congress
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Funeral for J. M. Ingram Held at Desert Church
J. M. Ingram died January 27 at his son Jess Ingram’s Fort Worth home. Funeral at Desert Presbyterian Church last Friday was led by Rev. L. G. Hagard. Born April 15, 1855 in Georgia, he moved to Texas at fourteen and married Virginia Webb in 1879, with eight children surviving him. Virginia died 1896 and he remarried Mattie Humphrey in 1900. no children from that union. Surviving children include W. M. Ingram, Mrs. Minnie Martin, Mrs. Della Slater, Claud Ingram, Son Ingram, Virgil Ingram, Mrs. Jewel Ellis, and Jess Ingram, with several grandchildren.
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J. M. Ingram
Jess Ingram
Fort Worth
Desert
Whitewright
L. G. Hagard
Mr. Ingram
Georgia
Texas
Virginia Webb
Ingram
Mattie Humphrey
W. M. Ingram
Minnie Martin
Chesnee
Della Slater
Bucklin
Claud Ingram
Bellevue
Hardcastle
Virgil Ingram
Graham
Jewel Ellis
Reed, Okla
Government bulle tins warn on excess and consolidation
A Senate debate highlights vast federal record keeping and counting of items from farm wagons to vermicelli production. Officials urge budget trims and department consolidations while warning the government cannot live beyond its income.
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Agriculture Department
Congress
Harrison
The
American Bankers’ Association
Neighbors Remind Columbus Allsop About Home Help
A committee of married neighbors urged Columbus Allsop to refrain from being so handy around the home as it sets a bad example. Cricket Hicks reflects on the year by noting he didn’t gain worldly wins but aimed to avoid causing trouble or taking part in disputes. Atlas Peck comments that a farm remains in one place across generations, with nature taking over if production ceases.
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Harrison
Emergence Fleet Corp
Shipping Board
King
Smoot
Veterans Activities
Veterans Administration
Will R. Wood
Frazier
McKellar
Federal Service
Lawrence Sullivan
Atlantic Monthly
Senate
Columbus Allsop
Cricket Hicks
Atlas Peck
Railroad Employes Take Salary Cuts
More than 1 250 000 railroad workers agreed to a 10 percent wage reduction for one year through Jan 31 1933. The accord, signed near midnight, ends past disputes and aims to stabilize employment, boost maintenance, and revive the equipment industry amid a credit pool and reconstruction finance support.
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Chicago
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Trivia Tidbits From A Storied Past
A string of curious notes spans topics from C Coolidge’s potential U S Steel presidency to amusements and oddities. Denting Bank papers reveal forged warnings, bridge insights, and naval fashion quirks. California climate claims, 1931 bank deposits shift, and oddities about swallowing takes and gold standards are touched.
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C. Coolidge
U. S. Steel Company
Oddities and Observations in Language and Life
A quirky collection of sentences explores grammar, philosophy, marriage, cultural quirks, and science. The notes reference Schopenhauer, statements about drunkenness and marriage, divorce, gender norms, a mid western college finding, and facts about water and ice.
Your Heart and Its Hidden Work
The heart beats about 100000 times daily and moves roughly 6200 gallons of blood each day. When functioning normally you feel nothing. fluttering or shortness of breath signals possible trouble needing immediate attention. The Sun advertises typewriter carbon.
Crime and sex novels losing out in the U S
Forrest Spalding of Des Moines Iowa told the national librarians convention in Chicago that crime and sex novels no longer form the chief reading. Nonfiction is rising with biography and economics leading. success stories recounting how the big men became rich top the list.
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Chicago
Forrest Spalding
Des Moines
Iowa
Spalding
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