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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hawley-Smoot bill, he thought, was "a very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff...
...Vagabond Lover (starring girl-crazing Rudy Vallee) and Night Parade. Every existing negative of Douglas Fairbanks' and Mary Pickford's The Taming of the Shrew was rumored to have been destroyed. Then somebody found they had been taken out just before the fire. About $2,000,000 worth of prints made from the stored negatives were burned up, but that was all. Assured that burning cinema film breeds no such dreadful gases as X-ray negatives did in the Cleveland Clinic last spring (TIME, May 27), searchers opened the hot door, entered the vaults, found the vintages...
Wilbur--"Age of Innocence". Katherine Cornell in enough to make this worth while...
...year and a half prove that there has been no falling off in European demands for these commodities. In fact there has been a decided expansion. Ten of these general commodities, of the type indicated, were sold to Europe in 1913 to the total of some $72,000,000 worth. Last year the value was $293,000,000--an increase in sixteen years of more than 300 per cent. Even though a part (perhaps 60 per cent) is chargeable to price increases, there is obviously a greater increased volume in this traffic; and it shows nosign whatsoever of abatement...
...every 5.1 persons who walk. In Britain the proportion is 1 to 41.1. Last week British motormen did their best to split the 41, crowd more automobiles on British highways, by opening their annual Automobile Show at Olympia, London's spectacle house. Salient facts: ¶ Ten million dollars worth of automobiles were on view, 148 makes including 37 British, 26 U. S., 19 French. ¶ Cheapest car in the show: the British "Baby" Austin, selling for $631. Fords cost British buyers $826. ¶ Most original car in the show: the Trojan, with engine astern. ¶ Staggering innovation: the hoar...