Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Pennsylvania had come the loudest demands for added protection for industry. Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association and G. O. P. campaign cash-collector extraordinary, had been in the forefront of an old-style drive for higher rates (TIME, March 25). He had secured duties on brick and cement, had permanently pegged pig iron at $1.12½ per ton. But he still sounded dissatisfied when he said: "The few raises fall short of meeting the requirements ... of Pennsylvania's industries along lines indicated in the Republican platform adopted at Kansas City." He intimated that provisions...
Loans to Brokers. Since the spring of 1928, the Federal Reserve Board has been to reduce loans to brokers. These were last week about $1,500,000,000 than when the drive upon them Thus the drive obviously was fail Furthermore it was from the begin a lost cause. For almost the entire in loans to brokers came not from Manhattan banks, not from out-of-town but from private corporations. And, although the Federal Reserve could partially control the loans from banks, it could not at all control the loans from corporations. For the loans from corporations were...
...stories, simpler in design, are quite as effective. There Are Smiles records the encounters of a smart young thing in her smart new roadster with Ben Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself...
...even with this in mind, several other considerations should first demand the attention of graduate contributions. The Harvard Fund, and especially the drive for an adequate Physics Building, launched recently by the generous gift of the Rockefeller Foundation, requires immediate contributions if only permanently to secure the original nucleus of the fund. These needs, unfortunately, can not be met by other than private contribution...
Clothes which are collected in this drive will be at the disposal of the various boys' clubs with which the Phillips Brooks House is connected, and will be given also to needy students in the University...