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...Passed a bill authorizing the sale of onetime German steamship piers at Hoboken. N. J., seized in Wartime. ¶ Ratified two treaties executed at the Pan-American Conference of 1928 at Havana on the rights and duties of American nations in the event of Civil War, the status of aliens in Pan-America. ¶ Adopted a resolution to investigate Post Office Department leases (TIME. April...
...slash of more than $75,000,000. Much of this cut will directly benefit U. S. tourists. The de luxe hotel taxes have been deeply cut, the tax on purchases of luxury articles has been halved, no longer will the "nuisance" tax for landing and embarking be added to steamship ticket prices...
Elected. Sir Percy Elly Bates, G.B.E., 50; to be Cunard Steamship Co.'s board chairman, succeeding Sir Thomas Royden, retired...
Charleston, leisurely, unprogressive, socially high-headed, remains today an antique among U. S. cities. The Atlantic Coast Line's best Florida trains skip Charleston; likewise Clyde Steamship Co.'s New York-Florida express boats. Its business men lunch at 2:30, return to work at 4, if at all. Many contend, visitors as well as citizens, that it is the most civilized city...
Last autumn the Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read...