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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover issued two proclamations last week: 1) he designated May 1 as Child Health day; 2) he created a special board of inquiry under the Railway Labor Act, which averted a strike of 4,000 shop and train employes on the Texas and Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Telephone | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Capitol April 15 for its first or extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 71st, Special | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Nine years ago Signer Guiseppe Danise came to the U. S. from Salerno, Italy, under contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company, leaving Signora Danise and two bambinos behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Again, Turpitude | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Department of Labor prepared to urge the deportation of Baritone Danise on the ground of moral turpitude.* Baritone Danise was living in Manhattan with the present Signora Danise and their two bambinos. Prosperous, still under contract with the Metropolitan, he said: "I am grateful for the opportunities which America has given me. It would break my heart to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Again, Turpitude | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Under the shadows of the Wasatch Range, Reed Smoot attended the Brigham Young Academy, clerked in his father's store, worked in his father's woolen mill. A good Mormon, he believed that the sober labors of this life prepared for the life to come. Soberly, he subscribed to two New York newspapers of different faiths, read them comparatively for a year, solemnly concluded that only as a Republican could his business soul be saved. From that decision Reed Smoot has never since flinched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Lion- Tiger-Wolf | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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