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...years the maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
Federal Radio Commission reconsidered. Month ago, it changed its plans, ordered that one public utility press corporation be formed through which all member news companies might send their news. To the new company would be allocated 30 transoceanic channels immediately, plus 20 transcontinental channels so soon as "need" was shown for them. All newspapers, all press associations could subscribe to the corporation's stock...
Coming to the tariff question, Mr. Macauley said that a year or two ago U. S. Motors would have unanimously approved putting automobiles on the free list. But now, said he, foreign makers have adopted U. S. production methods, employ U. S. engineers. Furthermore: "We have an increasing number of foreign plants, owned or controlled jointly by American manufacturers and foreign interests, the ultimate effects of which no one can forecast." Mr. Macauley felt, therefore, that a partial reduction of from 25% to 10% should be tried before any free list measure was considered. But buses, heavy duty trucks, electric...
Except for his 800-acre farm in DuPage county, he has no hobbies. He never visits his clubs, has no social interests. Recently, however, he became a trustee of Northwestern University. Born in Canada, he was naturalized only a few years ago...
...Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to the living, but to the thousands and tens of thousands of dead, and I say: 'Soldiers of France, you have seen the men of the Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them...