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...bossing "the biggest job in the country" for three years, Chief Engineer Rice wrote a new feature into the specifications for Queens sewers. After this specification was inserted, sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that $8,000,000 had been "wasted" by the Queens sewer builders. It developed that the only kind of sewer pipe that would meet Chief Engineer Rice's specifications was a patented product for which one John M. Phillips, good friend...
...spending $3,263,000 between July 1926 and July 1927, the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce (stated its Director Julius Klein in his annual report last week) helped 2,500,000 firms and individuals and brought them $500,000,000 in additional profits. A U. S. maker of lubricants thus secured $300,000 new business in Berlin, a San Francisco fruit firm $100,000 in Buenos Aires; an electric car manufacturer $1,000,000 in Madrid; a Manhattan novelty house $300,000 in Montreal; a motor car maker $300,000 in Rome...
...white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered an address, declared that: 1) manufacture exceeds agriculture in the South; 2) unlike the dear, dead days when King Cotton was courted by foreign buyers, the South now campaigns for foreign markets...
Grief. To legionaries in general and Morris Klein of Wyoming in particular, who grieved at being charged high for rooms engaged through Legion headquarters, officials simply explained that most advance leases had, unfortunately but unavoidably, been made at a moment when the franc was extremely low and prices correspondingly high. Rooms engaged later and independently were cheaper because prices had descended as the franc rose. The Legion charged U. S. lessees 10% more than it paid French lessors?5% for overhead, 5% for agency commissions...
Chief Delegate Henry M. Robinson of the U. S. delegation was appointed chairman of the Industry Commission. On the Commerce Commission sat U. S. delegates Norman Davis and Dr. Julius Klein. Finally U. S. delegate Alonzo Taylor took his seat with the Agriculture Commission...