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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes the strikers sent a telegram: TO MEET PUBLIC DEMAND TO END THE STRIKE WE PROPOSE THAT ALL QUESTIONS AND DISPUTES BE SETTLED BY A BOARD OF ARBITRATION. Officials refused to arbitrate, 18 superintendents of New York cemeteries having agreed that the strike was unjustified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Strike | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...cover**) In Chicago last week the Federal Farm Board bore its first fruit?a 20 million dollar grain marketing corporation. Still minus a wheat member and without Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde who was kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: First Fruit | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Affairs Committee, declared, however, that the President was legally powerless to interpose an undue delay in carrying out the will of Congress. The altercation harked back to the last administration, when President Coolidge vainly sought to induce Congress to eliminate the mandatory time-clause from the building bill to meet just such an emergency. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtailment & Limitation | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal and consumption of whiskey for medicinal purposes [last year] was 1,616,924 gallons. . . . There will be on hand Jan. 1, 1930, five years' supply. ... To meet the non-beverage needs, it is proposed to authorize the manufacture of 2,000,000 gallons for the next permit year . . . 70% Bourbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Medicine | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does not, the Schmeling-Sharkey world's championship fight may be in Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track. Last week's was the ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport Notes, Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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