Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Together the three consulted, then drew up the list of their first four witnesses, William B. Shearer not included. The four were officials of two of three shipbuilding companies suspected of having hired Shearer to induce failure of the Geneva Disarmament Conference so that they might have more battleships to build...
...side stood the Insull-controlled New England Public Service Co., parent company of Central Maine Power Co., and four Maine textile mills. It openly and expensively campaigned for power export. Leader of its fight was Walter S. Wyman, President of the Central Maine. He reported that the funds expended in the campaign were the result of Insull profits in Texas, were not profits taken from Maine consumers. On the same side were former Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (1921-25) and numerous newspapers including the papers published by Guy Patterson Gannett.* Together they bombarded Maine with advice to permit power export...
Amendment Blocked. Successive Governments have been trying since 1911 to get Australia's Constitution amended to give the Dominion Arbitration Court really sweeping and effective powers. On four different occasions the state legislatures have refused to pass the amendment. Finally last May courageous Prime Minister Bruce announced a totally new and startling policy...
...Last week a Bradstreet report based on building permits in 187 U. S. cities summed up this slump in the form of a concise figure. That figure was 23.4%. It represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four structures built during August 1928 only three were being built during August 1929-a startling shrinkage in so basic an industry. Greatest decline, however (45%) was in New York; decrease outside the metropolis stood...
...disclosed the amounts of his benefactions. Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...