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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Etienne last week, when M. Tardieu communicated to them his resolve not to tolerate a strike. The operators, he declared, were right when they proposed to cut the price of coal to meet foreign competition† but were wrong in attempting to cut the men's wages low enough to leave the operators' profits unimpaired by the new low price of coal. Similarly, rapped M. Tardieu, the men were wrong in demanding that their wages remain the same while the price of coal was cut. The Government, declared M. Tardieu, must and would here and now insist that...
...cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer of 1924 must indeed have been a revelation to the members of the troupe...
...benefit to both the players and spectators. However, no dug-outs will be constructed this year for several reasons. Primarily the construction of dug-outs requires digging several feet into the ground, and the land of Soldiers Field will not permit this because it is nearly as low as sea level...
...efficient farm system. Throughout the United States as a whole, 40 per cent of the land now farmed is farmed by land tenants. That is, only 60 per cent of the men in the country who own land, do their own farming on it. This, indeed, is a very low percentage for any country hoping for agricultural advancement. However, of the 160,000 farms in New England, 93 per cent of them are worked by the owners. This means a great advantage for New England, in that those producing its crops are working their own land, and consequently produce better...
...railway brotherhoods last week entered a third field of finance. For several years now they have operated successfully as commercial bankers. Last February they organized American Home Builders Inc., to finance house construction at low rates. (Here they compete with savings & loan societies.) Last week's creation was the Continental Bank, at Cleveland, to lend money to workers upon personal securities. Although Continental Bank and similar personal loan banks to be set up over the country with railway brotherhood financing will to some extent compete with the various Morris Plan Banks,* their chief aim is to undermine loan sharks...