Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 21 U. S. mayors went to France last spring and cut many a caper in the news, Mayor Walker was not among them (TIME, May 25, et seq.). Late in July, however, it was suddenly announced at City Hall that the Mayor's health was in a bad way, despite his ten-day rest in April in California. His physician. Dr. William Schroeder Jr., who is also his Commissioner of Sanitation, ordered him to "Europe for "rest." As a by-product of the trip, the Mayor and his Commissioner would inspect foreign garbage plants, get pointers to improve...
...comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April 28, 1930 et seq.). Of this sum Bishop Cannon had failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London...
...Albert Henry Wiggin report. "Al" Wiggin, head of the world's biggest bank, has said before that Reparations and Allied Debts must be reduced before prosperity can return. He has said that tariffs, and the U. S. tariff in particular, are too high (TIME, Jan. 19 et seq.). Here were delegates from ten countries saying the same thing again under his chairmanship. The mystery was how Al Wiggin persuaded France's delegate, hollow-eyed, white-haired Emile Moreau, to sign the report without public protest. It is definitely known that while the report was being prepared Banker Moreau...
Unless Premier Richard Bedford Bennett backs down at the last moment, as few U.S. publishers think but all hope he will, on Sept. 1 Canada's new tariff schedule on U.S. periodicals will go into effect (TIME,June 15, et seq.). The duty on magazines with more than 20% advertising would be 2? a copy; on magazines with 30% advertising, 5? a copy. Unsold copies are included. Exempt would be educational, scientific, religious journals if they contain less than 20% advertising. Last week two periodicals took steps. They were Bernarr Macfadden's Love Story and Western Story. They...
...mind the end of Lamport & Holt Line's Vestris which, commanded by a seaman whose brain had been replaced by a fearful vacillation which caused him to delay some six hours before sending out an SOS, dragged 110 people to death three years ago (TIME, Nov. 26 et...