Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
When the Federal Trade Commission became interested in the newspaper-buying activities of International Paper & Power Co. last spring, the fact was disclosed that two young men named William Lavarre and Harold Hall had been commissioned by I. P. & P. to buy a chain of newspapers in the South (TIME, May 20). They bought four: Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. Purchase money amounting to $870,000, the buyers told the Commission, was loaned to them...
...conspired to gain control of the four newspapers after their acquisition by Lavarre & Hall...
...also conspired with Buyer Hall to violate its agreement with Buyer Lavarre, to embarrass Buyer Lavarre and prevent him from successfully operating his newspapers...
...concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 15). Last week the experiment could no longer be considered experimental. The attendance had amazed even optimistic Conductor Arthur Fiedler. His nightly audiences, numbering between 5.000 and 8,000 are twice as large as a wintertime full-house at Symphony Hall...