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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey had to pay for having had some stones reset in Paris. For the finery she paid $7,600, bringing her complete bill to $8,783. Said Mrs. Rumsey easily: "I thought I had declared all ... my maid packed ... I neglected to check...
Chairman Requa got the conference off to an awkward start when he said: "If and when the Government has made it possible for the industry to cooperate and conserve and that co-operation and conservation are not forthcoming, then no one will be more insistent than myself in urging rigid government coercive regulation." The word coercive brought the industry to its feet in instant protest...
Chairman Requa hastened to reply that his words had been taken "too literally." Said he: "Any thought of coercive legislation is unthinkable." But the word echoed unhappily. From Washington came Senatorial rumblings that any policy of coercion would be "bitterly repudiated...
Publisher Copley admitted that he was once president and director of Western United Corp., now Insullated, but that he had resigned, sold his interests to buy newspapers at about the same time Mr. Insull acquired large holdings in Western United. He said: "I have no securities whatever in public utilities. There is not a dollar of utility money invested in my newspapers." He did say he still holds 12.500 shares of Western United in trust for his wife, his sister and one W. W. Tracy of Springfield...
While Washington newsgatherers have lounged in the Spring sun on the White House steps, cablegrams from London signed "Bell" have been passing, unknown to the loungers, into the executive offices. Had they known, the White House correspondents would probably have said scornfully: "Old Bell's at it again." But last week, when the Bell cablegrams were first publicly known about, it was too late to say that. It was official news that Ramsay MacDonald, England...