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...6???President Hoover appoints the Federal Home Loan Board, headed by his old friend and 1928 campaigner Franklin William Fort, "lame duck" Representative from New Jersey. Three days after taking office the Board marches to the White House to be photographed with the President. Says he: "Good luck and God bless...
Rates on wheat will not, as promised, be reduced by 6?? to 9¢ per bu., because this commodity is now being carried from the head of the Lakes to Montreal for about...
...have been loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from 2¢ to 6??. A 4¢ tax is imposed on 15¢ cigarets. Last week Senator Long ordered 100 highway police to stop tax-dodgers from smuggling gasoline and cigarets into the State, warned them not to molest liquor 'leggers. Soft drinks, life insurance premiums, electricity and corporate capitalization are also heavily taxed. Enemies...
...party was the largest yet to attempt a transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6???were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...Quids: 1) free entry for five years to all Canadian products now duty free, reserving the right to impose duties after three years on dairy products; 2) preference to Canada by imposing duties on foreign dairy products, certain fruits, unwrought copper (2d. a lb.), wheat (25. a quarter, or 6?? a bushel); 3) continuation of the 10% ad valorem duty on foreign timber, zinc, lead, asbestos, fish (Canada had wanted the tariff on timber increased); 4) a ten-year extension of the preference on Canadian tobacco...