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...voted for: Farm Relief, the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1928), Tax Reduction, Reapportionment, the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), the Tariff...
Last week, however, a commission of Congressmen headed by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Territories & Insular Affairs Committee, were aboard the 7,05O-ton cruiser Omaha en route from Honolulu to Pago Pago to consider at first hand the conflicting petitions and reports which Congress has received. While at Honolulu they had held sessions, heard much testimony from Samoans and others...
Secretary Stimson declared President Hoover had made 35 campaign pledges, had fulfilled 34 of them.? He cited major accomplishments: i) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act; 2) Federal Farm Board; 3) a I% income tax reduction (for 1929 only) ; 4) increased public construction; 5) increased merchant marine; 6) cruiser limitation under the London Naval Treaty; 7) improved Latin-American relations...
...portfolio of German confessions one made by a certain Fred Hermann. This alleged "secret service agent" declared that he worked with other German hush-hush men in London early in the War, positively asserted that they learned of Earl Kitchener's projected visit to Russia on a British cruiser, radioed to Berlin information which enabled Germans to lay the mine which sunk...
Four nations landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...