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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Tammany Leader George Washington Olvany resigned six weeks ago (TIME, March 25),'the bitter difference between Tammany and its greatest son was clearly exposed. Tammany said Smith had "the big head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner...
...Each village in the colony has its Schultz, or head man," explained Mennonite Schwartzenstruber, "and the colony's affairs as a whole are regulated either by a council of the Schultzen or by a mass meeting of the whole community which now numbers 1,368 adults...
Pleased last week were hot-dog men, peanut men, pop men, billboard men. Pleased also were auto men and tire men. Source of their pleasure was a prediction made by Builder Fred T. Ley ("No job too large, no job too small") head of Fred T. Ley & Co., Inc., holding company for Ley construction and real estate operations...
Taxi companies estimated that the gas tax has increased operating expenses per cab by 40?a day. Additional insurance rates have produced a 50? a day increase. A taxi's daily intake is about $23, its net about $4. According to A. S. Freed, head of Paramount Cab Mfg. Co., the threatened 30? a mile rate (well within the legal limit of 40? would barely compensate for added costs of doing business...
...impossible to believe that you, Mr. Rosenwald [Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, Chairman of Sears Roebuck] with your record of benefactions to humanity, and you, Mrs. Sherman [Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, clubwoman, onetime (1924-26) head of General Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches...