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President-Elect Hoover was involved last week in the time-limit phase of the cruiser question. Chairman Fred Britten (Ill.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee, biggest of the big-navy group, issued a statement, presumably with intent to influence the Senate's action on the time-limit provision...
Born. To King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan; at Kandahar, their second-biggest city, where the King was girding his forces to recapture Kabul, the Capital, from Bandit Bacha Sakao, a son (eighth child...
Died. Jackson Johnson, 69, founder and chairman of the board of International Shoe Co. (world's biggest manufacturer of shoes); of angina pectoris; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Shoemaker Johnson, at 18, opened his first store at Holly Springs, Miss., organized shoe businesses in Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis, which he made his home. Said he: "I moved shoes West...
...Mercantile Trust Co. and the National Bank of Commerce, both in St. Louis, made dickers last week, preliminary to a consolidation. Effected, the merger would form a bank, as large, perhaps larger, than the present "biggest" First National Bank of St. Louis...
Plumbing, Heating. Plenipotentiaries from American Radiator Co. (biggest manufacturer of heating apparatus) met in a two-day conference last week with officers of Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. (plumbing fixtures), to arrange consolidation into a $172,000,000 company...