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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 25),'the bitter difference between Tammany and its greatest son was clearly exposed. Tammany said Smith had "the big head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner, for example-someone who could continue Tammany's influence...
...Canada has secured recognition of her autonomous status through the League. Canada is now a member of the Council. In that case, the Canadian representative has to vote on many intricate European questions. He votes as representative of Canada which means that he is the voice of the Canadian government and that the government must make decisions on all international questions. This has caused a very marked reaction in the House of Commons where they now have frequent debates on international matters...
...American colonists refused to pay at their famed "Boston Tea Party." Throughout England last week the retail price of tea- which Britons drink at the rate of 10 Ib. each per annum-fell fourpence a pound (8?), much to the satisfaction of poor and thrifty citizens who would ordinarily vote Laborite. Perhaps some of them will now gratefully vote Conservative. Therefore the angry Labor pixie spat at Conservative Churchill that his latest opus was a "Brib-ery Budget!" After that-cripple or no cripple-it was Parliamentary war to the knife. Not unnaturally, Mr. Churchill, a man of flesh...
This was the crux of the whole speech. The Prime Minister had been droning for an hour about the Conservative Party's record. He now came to a vote-getting, unexpected, radical electioneering premise which party strategists had calculated would appeal to the 5,000,000 women between 21 and 30 who have just been enfranchised for the first time by the so-called "Votes for Flappers Bill" (TIME, Aug. 13, et ante...
...Most, however, stayed at home; all knew that the main business of the meeting was to increase authorized common stock from $753,321,000 to $1,250,000,000 and reduce the preferred from $550,000,000 to $400,000,000. This was accomplished by the unanimous vote of the 200 (representing 2,783,890 shares preferred, 5,515,050 shares common) stockholders present. Thus U. S. Steel's giant capitalization mounted from...