Word: generale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings: one hour at church; two hours on a motor ride. ¶ Thirty-five public utility executives, led by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, filed into the Cabinet Room, pledged nearly two billion dollars to the President's Momentum-for-Industry program. Total pledges: ten billion dollars. ¶ To the White House went Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, asked President Hoover to practice his own plea by preventing the release...
Statistical beyond all others was the annual report of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. His most important legislative recommendation sought punishment for blackmailers using the mails as a means of attempted extortion...
...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...
...Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return...
...banquet planned in honor of the University football team by members of the Harvard Club of Boston will be held on December 19, according to members of the committee organizing the festivity. E. W. Soucy '16 will be in general charge of the dinner and will be assisted by a committee of 14 members, among whom are many prominent in the football history of the University...