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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶President Coolidge assured inquirers that he would approve a budget provision to continue the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the political and financial activities of interstate public utility companies (power trust). The latest development in this inquiry was the refusal of the Electric Bond and Share Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

To Nominee Hoover's Boston speech, in which Nominee Smith's proposal of a non-partisan Tariff Commission was represented as a proposal to take Tariff control away from Congress, the Smith retort was: "What is the idea of all that? . . . I never suggested that the power of Congress be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smith Speeches | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Professor Morgan says that the question is not whether Sacco and Vanzettl were innocent, but whether they had a fair trial. To be sure, that was the question before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for decision; but the question before the Governor was the broader one raising the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governor Fuller's Task | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

Chistmas cards are one of the wares which students may sell on a straight commission basis. Also three or four men are needed to sell advertising for a program. Three permanent jobs as caretakers for grounds are available which require part of one or two days a week. In addition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DALY ANNOUNCES SURPLUS OF WORK OFFERED STUDENTS | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

Good taste, however, needed defense in the debate on the question of authorizing the Commission on Evangelism to cooperate with the United Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This authorization, it seemed to some who were opposed to official contact with the Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polite Convention | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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