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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JOHN T. HARBOLD, M...
...Voted 306 to 57, to adjourn at 5 p. m., May 27; sent the resolution to the Senate. (Republican Leader Tilson had carried the resolution for days in his pocket, awaiting a propitious moment to introduce...
...that company's most conspicuous figure, Harry Ford Sinclair. Last week, Secretary Mellon notified the Senate, in response to a query, that, as a result of Senate investigations, Harry Ford Sinclair and his three friends-Col. Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Harry M. Blackmer (fugitive from justice) and James E. O'Neil (fugitive from justice), all of whom participated in the Continental Trading Co.'s big deal-would be made to pay penalties for evasion of taxes on Continental profits. It was "not compatible with public interest" to say how much...
When the grumbling and spatting climaxed, who should be appointed Minister of Commerce but that suave barrister M. Maurice Bokanowski. He knows the nimbleness of U. S. telephone girls from personal experience. He gets things done in Herbert Hoover fashion (TIME, March 19). Furthermore funds wherewith to buy new telephone equipment were now becoming available through the sound but dazzling financial wizardry of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, the savior of the franc (TIME...
Result: much new and efficient telephone equipment has been Hoovered into service by dynamic, persuasive M. Bokanowski.* Last week he presided with dancing eyes over the banquet given at Paris by those smart, shrewd telephone subscribers who instigated the whole reform. They, pleased by the recent marked acceleration of service, gallantly tendered the banquet, last week, to 100 telephone-women chosen by lot to represent their Nimble Sisterhood...