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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furnace Case. Famed, also aged, the seven-year-old Claire Furnace Co. case last week bobbed up before the U. S. Supreme Court for tho third time. It involves the right of the Federal Trade Commission to compel manufacturers engaged in interstate commerce to supply monthly information concerning the condition of their business. The Supreme Court ruled that a bill enjoining the Trade Commission from enforcing its orders should have been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court, jurisdiction lying not with the courts but with the U. S. Attorney General. The decision, limited to the technical question...
...Veteran John H. Mayes was taught photo-engraving at the Veterans' Bureau. Studious, quick-learning, he soon was able to start a photo-engraving business of his own, in Murphysboro, 111. On pieces of specially prepared paper, seven and one-eighth inches long, three and one-eighth inches wide, he made minutely detailed engravings, including the arresting words: "This certificate is a legal tender in the amount thereof in payment of all debts and dues public and private. Acts of March 14, 1900, as amended...
French premiers are proverbially supple in their politics, but last week three statesmen aged 66, 63, and 55 who have held the Premiership a total of seven times proved themselves also supple in their joints...
...from the 1928 class team 13 to 8 in a five inning game featured by heavy slugging. For the schoolboys, Captain Watkins and Tenney lead the attack on J. B. Beal and J. W. Cox, who tossed for the Juniors. Browne and Nichols sewed up the game with seven runs in the second inning...
...Slocum '28, on the mound for the Juniors starred for the winners, allowing seven scaltered hits, striking out six of the batters who faced them, and adding to his team's total with a circuit clout in the third inning. Except for one bad and long seventh inning in which the Juniors pushed agrees seven runs, V. B. Weymouth '29 hurled a fair game for the Sophomores, chalking up five strikeouts against the winners...