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Companies. As everyone knows, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (including Newcomb Carlton's Western Union) is the greatest domestic communication system in the U. S. At its head is that young super-executive, President Walter Sherman Gifford. As everyone also knows, the second greatest domestic system is the Mackay-owned Postal Telegraph, which has no telephones...
Last week Low-Tariff Mr. Costigan added that High-Tariff Mr. Marvin was "tireless and fanatical"; that his continued membership on the Commission impaired its usefulness and reputation. He criticized two other members of the Commission-Edgar B. Brossard of Utah and Sherman J. Lowell of New York-for belonging to the "Marvin group." He attacked President Coolidge for disposing of former Commissioners, notably David J. Lewis of Maryland, when their views and actions displeased. He also charged disregard of law and improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which...
...chief of California. He paused only long enough to name San Francisco harbor the Golden Gate. Meanwhile, the U. S. had declared war on Mexico and a General Kearney arrived in California to take charge. Kearney and Frémont quarreled so violently that a lieutenant named William Tecumseh Sherman wondered: "Who the devil is the governor of California...
...trial of Father William J. Burns, the great detective, and Son W. Sherman Burns, ignorance of the son's actions was the father's plea. Their detectives had been hired by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to shadow the jury chosen to try Sinclair for criminal conspiracy with Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man. Father Burns said he knew nothing about it. When the Washington Herald (Hearst) discovered, and the Department of Justice announced, the shady work afoot (TIME, Nov. 14), it was news to Father Burns-said Father Burns...
Next day the Committee's time was considerably occupied by Mrs. William Sherman Walker, vice president of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was incensed with a pacifist named Frederick J. Libby, who heads a Council for the Prevention of War, and also with Professor Hull, who had said something (perfectly true) about the American colonists not having entered the Revolution unanimously. Mrs. Walker was for having Professor Hull deported. Acting Chairman Britten-of the Committee tactfully suggested that the D. A. R. pass a resolution to that effect...