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(3 of 3) experiences of many a small boy (like himself) whose weekly chore before the electric-blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Next week at Atlantic City will convene the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss the state of industry. Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Wages, Bankers, Chambermen | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

Since less than ten days of the present Congress remained, the President might have killed the bill simply by doing nothing about it. Fearful that the President would take advantage of this constitutional technicality to kill the measure without giving Congress another chance to vote on it, Michigan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of the Bonus | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Meanwhile in Washington opposition to the four-system Eastern merger plan was strengthened last week when William C. Green, special counsel for the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to probe rail consolidations, filed a report flaying the proposed unification scheme. Committee Chairman Couzens who seeks to block all mergers welcomed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: New England Inkling | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

James Couzens of Michigan, who, for all his wealth, likes to attack millionaires. He is against railroad mergers. Third Party advocates want him to finance the cause.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insurgents Resurgent | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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