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...Henry Ford and Edsel called on the President with reference to Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Ford should make a contract with the Government for this fertilizer plant, it would eliminate him as a Presidential aspirant...
...cannot hold a contract from the Government and a Government office as well. It is believed, however, that Edsel Ford will sign the contract, if it is made. It is understood that Mr. Coolidge will let Congress decide the question. If the contract were refused to Mr. Ford through the President's intervention, the farmers might demand to know why they were denied Henry Ford and fertilizer. ¶ President Coolidge accepted an offer, made by Mrs. A. B. Calhoun of Atlanta, of a White House dog, an Airedale, half brother of Laddie Boy. ¶ To the National Council...
...Pennsylvania, in announcing that the anthracite strike was concluded to all intents and purposes, one week after it officially commenced. The Governor's four points for compromise and peace (TIME, Sept. 10) embodied chiefly a 10% increase of wages for the miners (instead of a 20% increase for contract miners and $2.00 a day for day workers, as demanded) and the abandonment of the check-off (demanded by the miners) . The eight-hour day had already been agreed...
...them, that they yielded only out of consideration for the public. As soon as a general agreement was reached, both parties entered a joint conference to settle the miners' lesser demands. A convention of the miners was called to meet at Scranton on Sept. 17 to ratify the contract so reached...
Coincident with the news that Baby Peggy (half past three) has "signed" a contract that will net Mr. and Mrs. Peggy $5,000,000 during three years, come certain advices* regarding the maltreatment of the children of the studios. It appears that small armies of indigent mothers and indolent fathers stand ready daily to sacrifice their offspring on the altar of Hollywood...