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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions . . . we may suggest they are not a new necessity in government. President Roosevelt created 107 of them, President Taft 63, President Wilson 160, President Harding 44, President Coolidge 118. . . . I shall appoint others." Hoover commissions to date...
...Hoover Administration last week decided to speed the effect of the London Naval Treaty even before it had been ratified by Japan. The Treaty requires the U. S. to put away two of its 18 capital ships within one year of the Treaty's effective date, and a third within six months thereafter. On the assumption that Japan would surely ratify, the Administration announced through the Navy Department that the battleships Utah, Florida and Wyoming would drop out of the fleet line Oct. 1. The Florida will be scrapped. The Wyoming, dismantled, will serve as a training craft...
Harold C. Keith, president of George E. Keith Co. (shoes) : "While our company has made no reductions in wages or salaries and contemplates none, yet . . . conditions . . . might force such changes at a later date...
Reasons given for the decline: "The sport craze," "churchianity" instead of "Christianity," radios, motorcars, modernism in religion, expensive denominational programs, out-of-date evangelistic sermons and methods. The Far West provides almost no soul business, the East very little. Only region still reasonably profitable: the Mid-West...
...only child of a rich Trieste merchant, very early in his boyhood be came so preoccupied with introspection that he was soon a hypochondriac. A cigaret-smoker almost from infancy, he was constantly vowing to stop smoking. He wrote in his diary, on the walls of his room, the date on which he would smoke his last cigaret. The dates were soon in numerable. When his parents died. Zeno came into a fortune. He played with busi ness, gambled on the stock exchange. There he met shrewd, blunt Malfenti, who took a fancy to him, took him home to meet...