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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Softest Job." When a congressman from Iowa, Mr. Good frequently heard people describe the position of Secretary of War as "the softest job in the Cabinet." After six months' service, he wonders what these people meant. No small assignment was it for him to memorize just the list of things he is directly or jointly responsible for: the regular military establishment (124,000 officers and men at more than 100 posts); veterans, river & harbor improvements on inland navigation, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, flood control, waterpower, forest reserves, oil conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia parks...
What used to be the steel trust appeared last winter before the House Ways & Means Committee, declared that the 1922 tariff act had caused the steel industry to pay $45,000,000 in manganese duties without domestic production being benefited or improved. The House was asked to free-list this ore. The House refused...
...level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee reversed itself, voted 5-to-6 to free-list manganese ore, with a saving of between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 in duties for U. S. Steel Corp., on its Russian contract alone...
Chicago Union. The Chicago Federation of Musicians announced a series of 30 public concerts through September, beginning Labor Day in Grant Park, by a 50-man orchestra. On the list to be invited to conduct: Frederick Stock, John Philip Sousa...
...following list gives 20 stocks labelled with various degrees of certainty as Morgan Stocks. It shows a wide diversity of Morgan interests, a wide diversity of Morgan profit. The stock prices given are respectively the closing prices on Jan. 2, 1929 and the closing prices on Aug. 17, no allowance being made for rights issued in the intervening period...