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...National Stevedores, Lightermen and Dockers' Union, another organization, decided to remain at work-but not to work overtime-until negotiations over their 'demand for an increase of 54? a day fell through. Employers decided to throw open the docks to all workers on terms which they had previously offered to the men, i.e., a 21-cent daily increase...
General Hans von Seeckt, Comman-der-in-Chief of the Reichswehr ( German Federal Defence Force), started the move by writing to Herr Ebert, President of Germany. Said he: "I believe the task that fell to me has practically been fulfilled. The authority of the State has been so strengthened that the measures initiated under the exceptional State ordinance for the rehabilitation of our national and economic life can be carried on without it. In case you, Herr Reichspresident, share my view, I request you make it public...
...dispensation follows the precedent of the late Cardinal Farley who obtained from Rome permission for New York Catholics to eat meat on March 17, St. Patrick's Day, when it fell on a Friday...
TutankhAmen came a cropper. His friends fell to wrangling over his bones...
...confidence in the stock market, and rendered doubtful the presidential nominations. "I think it is very foolish trying to be an optimist in the stock market at the present time," he added. The effect of his pronouncement on the stock prices was electrical. In a single day, Fisher Body fell 13 points, General Electric 8⅛, Du Pont 7½, Baldwin 6, American Can 5, National Lead 8, Houston Oil 7½, U. S. Steel 3⅛, Studebaker 3¼, the entire list with hardly an exception declined...