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...hours. Very little work has been done before breakfast, but usually I have taken a short walk and during the winter season a more extended walk before dinner, which has been my chief mode of exercise. I have kept a couple of vibrating machines in my room which I found helpful...
Publicity is a prime requisite of any Goodwill trip. When the Hoover-bearing battleship Maryland passed down South America's west coast, it was found that the high Andes were an obstacle to telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could...
...drifted naturally into politics. He became State chairman, then national secretary of the G. O. P., retaining his good law practice and investments the while. Samuel Insull, astute businessman that he was, became the public utilities potentate of the Midwest. When government regulation of public utilities was found necessary, Mr. Insull also drifted naturally into politics, in the role of large contributor to campaign funds. Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily to help Commerce Commissioner Frank Leslie Smith...
...When supplemented by the 80-ft. dam proposed by the Insull interests, they would yield only 40,000 horsepower. Tallulah Falls on the Tallulah River in Georgia yield 108,000. Few natural waterfalls in the U. S. have been developed for waterpower. Usually dams are found more convenient and efficient. Outstanding natural waterfalls now exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin...
James John Davis, second Secretary of Labor since that Department was divorced from Commerce in 1913, celebrated his eighth year in office with a report touching all phases of the work in 1928. Some facts: The Federal employment service found jobs for 1,412,645 applicants. The Bureau of Conciliation intervened in 478 industrial disputes. It worked to tranquillize strikes and lockouts affecting 350,000 workers (but claimed no great success in the bitter, long-drawn coal strike of last winter, which it proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some...