Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Pennsylvania had come the loudest demands for added protection for industry. Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association and G. O. P. campaign cash-collector extraordinary, had been in the forefront of an old-style drive for higher rates (TIME, March 25). He had secured duties on brick and cement, had permanently pegged pig iron at $1.12½ per ton. But he still sounded dissatisfied when he said: "The few raises fall short of meeting the requirements ... of Pennsylvania's industries along lines indicated in the Republican platform adopted at Kansas City." He intimated that provisions...
...Harry Elstner Talbott, dowager of Dayton, Ohio, energetic patroness-manager of Dayton's famed Westminster Choir, now on European concert tour ,TIME, March 25), arose from her chair ast week in Prague to reply to a toast which Prague Mayor Baxa had drunk to he choir in clear Czechoslovakian wine. Said she: "We are patriotic Americans. We don't drink, but thank you just the same." The Westminster Choir-singers are not supposed to use tobacco, either...
...election welter and hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent...
...brethren and sistren" issue also confronts the general assembly of Presbyterians, which meets in St. Paul this month (TIME, March...
...Committee on Recent Economic Changes was appointed in January 1928 to make a study of economic conditions in the United States during the years 1922-1927 in order to appraise factors of stability and instability in the economic life of the country. The researches were completed March...