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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen...
...General of the Philippine Islands. His arrival caused a holiday. White men and Filipinos stood in the streets to cheer. In his inaugural address, he pledged himself: 1) to pursue the policies of his predecessor, Henry Lewis Stimson, now Secretary of State; 2) to oppose any limit on duty-free sugar to the U. S.; 3) to promote "an era of economic and industrial development." Independence he would not discuss...
...abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them into the U. S. duty free as "agricultural implements" lent strength to this fear, foreshadowed dissension in the industry on a tariff...
...Boston's summer music began last week on the Charles River Basin Esplanade. Under the leadership of Arthur Fiedler, 45 members of Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra will present a trial series of free concerts...
...than $100,000) of Mrs. Harriet C. Flagg of Brookline, Mass., when she died a few years ago. He maintained that the bequest was a trust, to be contributed by him to humanitarian causes advocated both by himself and Mrs. Flagg (famine relief, laborers' welfare, Negro social advancement, free speech, printing and assemblage). Flagg relatives contested that the "trust" was too indefinite, that they were entitled to the property. Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the bequest had been made outright to Mr. Villard, to do with as he wishes...