Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court, since all members of the Cabinet and all Senators now at the Capital had been invited to come to Swampscott and spend a week end if they liked, to get away from the heat, to discuss if they cared to, in a general way, the program for next winter; and especially not to report oftener than once in two weeks that Secretary Weeks had resigned or was about to resign-which the President has several times denied-not to indulge in this rumor too often, if for no other reason, for the sake of the feelings of Mr. Weeks...
Announcing adjournment, the Commission also announced the assumption of new work. Last winter Congress passed a resolution (TIME, Feb. 9, CONGRESS), directing the Commission to make an inquiry with a view to lowering freight rates on agricultural products suffering from price depression. Recently, Western railroads asked for an 11% increase in rates. On Sept. 1, the commission will begin an inquiry in the Western district with three objects: 1) To find out what agricultural products need lower freight rates; 2) to determine what reductions may be made in such rates; 3) to ascertain on what products freight rates...
Boston & Maine trains, moseying up the Hoosac Valley to Williamstown, Mass., carried a curious freight this week. In the winter their usual load is milk cans and traveling men; in the spring and autumn milk cans and college boys; in the summer milk cans. But this week big, all-steel specials swept up that dreaming valley, bearing to Williamstown financiers, lawyers, editors, college presidents, diplomats, army and navy officers, savants from all parts of the world, assembling at the invitation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, for the annual session of the Institute of Politics...
...several reasons the radio industry has of late been depressed. The business is seasonal to a great extent, owing to lack of interest in holding front-parlor concerts during summer, when other attractions intervene. Sales of equipment have regularly slumped over the summer and recovered in the winter...
Furthermore, producers of receiving equipment surpassed even the surprising demand last winter, and piled up this spring large inventories. Finally, the dull and uninspiring flood of stuff poured out on the air by many stations last season threatened permanently to impair interest in radio concerts; here, too, it is now felt that mistakes of the past will not be allowed to recur in the future, at least to the same extent...