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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back of last week's dramatic finale lay an extraordinary seven-month struggle. Introduced in the Senate by Alabama's Hugo LaFayette Black and in the House by Massachusetts' late William P. Connery Jr., the Wages & Hours Bill had the major aim of setting up an authority to impose on U. S. industry minimum wages & maximum hours of labor. The Senate passed it last July, but in the House it was held up by a hostile Rules Committee until a majority petition to discharge it was completed three weeks ago. Last week, by the time that...
...England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical supplies). In no uncertain terms Mr. Johnson had called for the withdrawal from party councils of Herbert Hoover, Alf M. Landon, and John D. M. Hamilton. Reddening...
Since the late Brooks Bowman wrote the nationally successful East of the Sun, Triangle songsmiths have had a hard song to beat. Fol-De-Rol is at least full of very good ones, complete with new-fangled long coda endings. When Your Heart's on Fire, by Dixon Morgan and C. E. Davis, seems particularly tuneful, and the ballet music has real distinction...
...Land: As darkness settled down on the little Scots hamlet of Castlecary late one afternoon last week, the local train from Dundee pulled into the London & North Eastern Railway station. Around it swirled a December blizzard that blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a second's warning the mile-a-minute Edinburgh-Glasgow express following the local crashed into it. Rescuers, lighted by bonfires made of debris from shattered wooden coaches, took out 91 injured, 35 dead-Britain's worst rail-road disaster in two decades...
...Founder Barney, now 94 and long since retired, lives outside Philadelphia but two of his grandsons are in the firm, as is a great-grandson of Jay Cooke. It also has a partner named Fish. As old Mr. Barney approached 50 another firm was founded in Philadelphia by the late Edward Brinton Smith, a railroad & utility banker. In Philadelphia, where such things count, Edward B. Smith & Co. was socially the equal of Chas. D. Barney & Co., and financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost...