Word: vhich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Philip Joseph ("Mac") Magrath, 59, Manhattan's famed fistfighting priest who for 24 years (1907-31) crusaded against waterfront gangs (Hudson Dusters, Tin Can Athletic Club, Pig Alley Sports, Vinegar Hill Gang) with prayer-book and an 8-in. rubber hose vhich, he said, "drops 'em just as quick but doesn't crack the skull"; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In his Catholic Seamen's Mission hung a bold sign: "If you want to know who's boss START SOMETHING...
...tariff on Japanese cotton rugs from 10? to 25? a sq. yd. The increase, 150%, was three times that which he could have made under the provisions of the flexible tariff law. ¶ Executing a second aboutface, President Roosevelt won a compromise agreement on the Stock Exchange Control bill vhich speeded it toward enactment. Originally Mr. Roosevelt accepted Senator Glass's proposal to place the power of exchange regulation in a separate commission instead of in the Federal Trade Commission. Fortnight ago, after consulting with Federal Trade Commissioner Landis, the President reversed himself. Peppery little Senator Glass was furious...
...frank admirer of Americans, dynamic Benito Mussolini granted to the University of Pennsylvania the first concession to unearth Italian ruins vhich the Italian Government has granted to foreigners for 30 years. Last week there was news from the Penn excavations 90 miles from Rome, news as important to international goodwill as to archeology. "We have unearthed," said Penn's scholarly Dr. Jotham Johnson, "a vast pre-Roman city four times larger than Pompei. . . . We have unearthed an ancient Greek market place unique in the world. Such, a find does not exist, so far as we know, even in Greece...