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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hallways. Then come the riots among the prisoners. Our next step is to build more prisons-and so I ask you what will the end be? Are we reducing crime? Many of your readers must have opinions upon this subject and I therefore propose that they be invited to express them. I'm wondering whether the public is really interested or are they too busy in their mad rush watching the ticker in Wall Street, or worrying how to provide funds to pay the next installment on the new car! Perhaps they prefer to leave it to the President...
...That Republican Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho should oppose the flexible provisions of the proposed Tariff Bill occasioned no great surprise in Washington. That he should express his opposition by a formal statement from Democratic National Committee headquarters, as he did last week, was surprising indeed. With a gleeful rattle a Democratic mimeograph ground out this Borah opinion: "There is no better illustration of the growth of bureaucracy than the story of the flexible tariff. . . . We are now delegating the full taxing power to the Executive...
Confident of success, Equity has not called upon unionized electricians, operators, cameramen. But these men have devised technical subtleties to express Equity sympathy. They drop heavy tools near apostate Equity actors, tinker with studio machinery, cause intolerable delays...
Western Air Express (Western Air, in connection with New York Central, Santa Fe and Chicago & Alton railroads has announced a 46-hour coast-to-coast air-rail service. It carried 13,102,715 pieces of mail and 7,880 passengers during the first six months of 1929. Chief mail route is Los Angeles to Salt Lake City [664 miles]. Chief passenger route is Los Angeles to Kansas City. Passengers ride in 12-passenger Fokkers. Net income, first quarter $ 320,000 Net income, entire year...
...Last year Showman Gest, stick in hand, clambered out of a window from the wreck of a Rome-Paris express in which 15 persons died...