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...question of postal rates has dumfounded the Post Office Department. A Congressional Committee is preparing data on the revenue resulting from the new rates that went into effect on Apr. 15-aiming to revise them. Postmaster General New has been trying to advise the Committee. A few weeks ago, on the basis of May revenue, which was only .0091% greater than it would have been under the old rates, he "guessed" that the Post Office would have a deficit of $40,000,000 this year (TIME, July 20). Last week figures were gathered on June revenue-it was 20.0125% greater...
However, it is not thought likely that Premier Kato will die like a rat in a trap, but will dissolve the Diet and hold new elections, relying upon the 9,000,000 extra electors which he recently enfranchised (TIME, Apr. 6) to show their appreciation of his endeavors by voting for his (the Kenseikai) Party...
...Leary Jr., a correspondent who specializes in Labor difficulties, that the final arrangement would take the form of an agreement: 1) To continue present wages; 2) to appoint a semi-public fact-finding body to prepare data for a future settlement; 3) a contract for 18 months to expire Apr. 1, 1927. On this same date, the wage contract in the bituminous coal fields expires, raising the prospect of a joint strike of both hard-and soft-coal producers. This prospect is not without advantages to both operators and miners. To the anthracite operators, it would mean a strike without...
...Parliament, Premier Baldwin outlined what he called "requirements for fleet replacement." In October two cruisers are to be laid down; in February, two more. Beginning with the next financial year (Apr. 1), three cruisers a year are to be built together with nine destroyers and six submarines, a total of 18 warships annually...
...pulpit and facing him, packed along wooden forms like rooks on a wire, were all the famed Art collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching a wink that raised the bid by several hundred...