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...different men at the helm of each, in January, 1924, was widely hailed as conducive to increased efficiency because of the detailed functions assigned to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. As a matter of fact, the Shipping Board retains absolute control by the simple, yet efficacious, method of demanding a blanket resignation from each Emergency Fleet Corporation President before he takes office. To date Lasker, Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although the latter graciously will not "accept" during...
...American protest at Busch's blanket indictment of his own race...
...have no pecuniary interest in the business in which they are employed, because they have no invested interest. But others maintain that wages and fear of unemployment constitute an interest seen enough to allow workmen voice in management. The obstacles to schemes of Industrial democracy are many. But the blanket condemnation Mr. Gary offers rings as hollow as the Quixotic demands of socialists...
These defects and others-defects that on the one hand make the U.S. appear uncivilized, and on the other deny to U.S. artists legislative benefits of a kind long enjoyed by manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...
...boxers were garbed in brown kid gloves and black tights, over which the champion draped a Canadian blanket, and Risko (Clevelander) wore a ringside cloak resembling a brown plaid bathrobe. These latter were dispensed with and the pasting began. Before the first round was over Mr. Berlenbach discovered that the 15 1/2 lb. he had given away were coming back to him with a vengeance. Most of these pounds seemed to be in Mr. Risko's left mitten. Toward the end of the first round the knowledge of how much weight he had given away came to Mr. Berlenbach...