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...promptly went into an all-day huddle behind locked doors. With its advice & consent Secretary Ickes shot to the Governors of the oil states maximum production quotas, which slashed the U. S. flow more than 300,000 bbl. daily. He banned withdrawal of oil in storage, ordered imports held at the average for the last six months of 1932. But, said Mr. Ickes: "After a final analysis ... I decided we would not attempt to fix prices today. I wanted to see what effect this allocation order would have...
This week the historical tours group conducted by G. S. Miller, professor of Government at Tufts, will visit Salem. Marblehead, and Marblehead Neck on the all-day trip Saturday, July 29. At 8.30 o'clock special busses will take the party from Sever Hall to Salem where the Ropes Memorial, the House of Seven Gables, the Piencer Village, and the Peabody Museum will be visited. At noon the party will go to Marblehead where the quaint streets, the old buildings, and the harbor are the principal attractions. Tickets which include all expenses except lunch can be purchased at the Summer...
Again in charge of G. S. Miller, professor of Government at Tufts College, the series of excursions to places of historical and literary interest in Eastern Massachusetts will start Wednesday afternoon, July 12, with a visit to historical Boston. On the following Saturday, July 15, there will be an all-day trip to Lexington and Concord. These excursions are arranged as part of the educational work of the Summer School and are particularly helpful for teachers of American History...
...locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cortége retired to another church. They took the front doors off their hinges to prevent efforts to close the church, refused to let priests from nearby St. Paul's hold masses, listened to an all-day entertainment by a 20-piece band, rang the church bell for seven hours, broke...
This raised a howl from railroad labor. After an all-day session the Association of Railroad Labor Executives trumpeted: "The organized railway employes announce their unyielding opposition to every program for increasing unemployment . . . by either reducing work or cutting wages. . . . Every measure of so-called 'economy' which reduces the total income of the wage earners brings nearer the day when millions of dispossessed, destitute and desperate people will be goaded into seizing the food, clothing and shelter to which they have a right by the supreme law of self-preservation. . . . If the days of competition are ended, then...