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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like all other bills, H. R. 2667 begins: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. . . ." That is about all that the Senate was expected to leave unchanged of the House's tariff handiwork. Senator Smoot prepared to begin hearings on the Senate rewrite on about June 11 behind closed committee doors. A month or more will be spent in this preliminary revision. After that, when the Senate gets the bill, the House will have to swallow its pride of authorship and the real Tariff Fight will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: To the Senate | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Last week notes began dropping in upon the Cherokee Times-Gaffneyites cancelling their $1.50 subscriptions. But also came notes, many of them from outside of Gaffney, ordering new $1.50 subscriptions. For this week the Cherokee Times was the first of U. S. newspapers to begin publishing the year's Pulitzer novel in serial form-a feature for which big metropolitan publishers always bid handsomely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scarlet in South Carolina | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...escape from the old adage, "once a professional always a professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...attorney for Homeyher Inc. attempted to have the case dismissed for insufficient grounds, but Craig's lawyer convinced the judge that the case warranted a trial and succeeded in having a date arranged. The actual trial will probably begin in about ten days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILFERED PUDDING SONG SUIT BEGINS | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...father, brethren and children of Electric Light will shortly begin celebrating handsomely its 50th anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Golden Jubilee | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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