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...wrappings and adjustments (there were five White House Christmas trees to trim), the President worked away in his office. Late in the afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds...
...injunctions. He wrote: "The American Federation of Labor and its 4,000,000 members have become alarmed at the action of certain judges. . . ." He cited injunctions written by Judges Schoonmaker and Langham of Pennsylvania, who viewed Labor Strikes as restraints of trade. He cited the Clayton amendment to the Sherman Anti-Trust act, which says...
Exposition. The first international travel exposition ever held in the U. S. filled Chicago's Hotel Sherman exhibition rooms all last week. Practically every foreign country where U. S. tourists go set up displays of arts & crafts and lithographs of its scenic beauties.* U. S. railroads, the national parks, states with recreation sites, travel agencies countered the foreign lure. Steamship lines displayed the magnificences of their services...
...villainy" of Oilman Sinclair's friends was hiring detectives to shadow the jury that was trying him, the new "villains" were these same detectives and notably their chiefs-Detective William John Burns, his son Sherman Burns and their "chief shad-ower," one Charles G. Ruddy. Not only in the "villainy" of these three but in their collective stupidity was the public invited by the press to take special satisfaction as details were brought to light...
...have been potent this year.*A silent, motionless unmarketed Ford has helped their heyday. Characteristic was their method of passing them on to stockholders. "Extras" (bonuses), said the directors' statement, will be continued. The policy is contrary to that of some other mammoth U. S. corporations. Recently Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., frowned on "melons" (TIME, Oct. 31). "Put the extra money back into the business for expansion and development," was his explanation to his 420,000 disappointed stockholders...