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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James John Davis, second Secretary of Labor since that Department was divorced from Commerce in 1913, celebrated his eighth year in office with a report touching all phases of the work in 1928. Some facts: The Federal employment service found jobs for 1,412,645 applicants. The Bureau of Conciliation intervened in 478 industrial disputes. It worked to tranquillize strikes and lockouts affecting 350,000 workers (but claimed no great success in the bitter, long-drawn coal strike of last winter, which it proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some...
...last week sent a check for $989,833. The Senator accepted it, though noting formally that there was a "slight miscalculation" of $20,000 or more for interest. The money was a tax refund which Senator Couzens won as the result of a fight started by the Internal Revenue Bureau three years ago to increase the Couzens profit-tax on Ford Motors stock sold by him in 1919 (TIME, January...
Walter Hughes Newton of Minneapolis left the harness business for the law. He is Steersman Hoch's close contemporary and colleague, but a very opposite type-burly, loud, "dynamic." He managed the Speakers' Bureau for Hooverism...
...genuine millionaire. In the U. S. a genuine millionaire must have an annual income of at least $1,000,000; this means the possession of $20,000,000 (figuring on the basis of a 5% yield). There were 283 U. S. millionaires in 1927, according to the Internal Revenue Bureau, last week...
Agencies) and the Bureau of Standards urge all magazines to adopt...