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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HUMPHREY A 13-year-old reader Sakonnet, R...
Last fortnight President Hoover persuaded Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
Threatened Strike. Locomotive engineers on the Missouri Pacific R. R. and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis took a strike vote as the result of a three-sided dispute on the representation of grievances involving the carriers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen. Similar strike votes were predicted for the Santa Fé, the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific on the same issue, with the possibility of a spread of the trouble to eastern and southern systems. The U. S. Board of Mediation girded itself to prevent a big rail strike...
With a two-thirds quorum already chosen, the Board was ready to organize. Its first duty was to get itself squared away in Washington. Looking for possible office space, inspectors went through the old Southern R. R. building, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street, lately acquired by the U. S. Secretaries, assistants, experts, clerks-the large personnel of bureaucracy -had to be hired, set to work...
...carillons. The issue cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells in Revolutionary times, retorted that his firm casts first-rate bells, that Mr. Rockefeller alone was agitating for a reduced...