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...Underwood-Democrats. The Bill. The chief features of the bill are: 1. Pay increases for postal employes, averaging $300 each and totaling $68,000,000 a year, to become effective retroactively as of Jan. 1. 2. Increases of postal charges, estimated to yield $60,000,000 a year, effective Apr. 15, and consisting, in chief, of an increase from 1c to 2c on postcards; practically no change on second-class mail (newspapers and periodicals) except that the rates on religious, educational, scientific, etc., publications was increased 1/4c a pound to equal the rate on reading matter in other publications...
...heart of the Anatolian Peninsula. But the matter goes further. In effect, this is nothing more than the unfurling of the banner of the House of Osman, deposed by the Grand National Assembly in 1922, and raising the question of the Califate, suppressed by the Assembly in 1923 (TIME, Apr. 28,1923). A Kurdish victory, therefore, could mean but one thing-defeat of the Kemalists, resurrection of the Califate at Constantinople, restoration of the Ottoman Empire. It may well be that the Angora Government is only too conscious of these issues; and in view of the gravity of the revolt...
Progress of the Amendment. Such an Amendment was recommended by President Coolidge in his first message to Congress, 13 months ago. On Apr. 26, last, it was passed by the House by a vote of 297 to 69. On June 2, it was passed by the Senate by a vote of 61 to 23. It then went to the states, 36 of which must ratify it before it can become part of the Constitution...
...Apr. 23, 1920, the Senate, again sitting as a High Court of Justice, condemned onetime Premier Joseph Caillaux to three years' imprisonment, five years' exile from Paris, loss of civic rights for ten years on the charge of having "impeded prosecution...
...trading in shares has drawn forth many comparisons with active markets in the past-particularly with that of 1901. As yet, however, the present market has still to equal many records established in that financial classic. No bull day has yet seen 3,200,000 shares sold, as on Apr. 30,1901. No bear day-yet-has equalled the record of May 9, 1901 (the day of the Northern Pacific corner), when over 3,300,000 shares were sold on the Exchange. In 1901, something less than 200 stock issues were listed on the Exchange ; whereas now, issues number over...