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...Voted 10 to 7 in committee to reject the renomination of John Jacob Esch to the Interstate Commerce Committee...
...based in the familiar phrase, "Taxation without representation." He thought the Philippine legislature, when it meets, should be allowed to pass on these expenditures of island taxes. In general, the Gabaldon revolt is against the dilatory, if not reactionary trend of U. S. Philippine policy since 1899, when Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, president of the first Philippine Commission, construed the U. S. policy to be for "continuously expanding liberty to issue in independence...
Mahonri Young's sculpture, at the Rehn Gallery, was certainly the best exhibition seen in Manhattan since Jacob Epstein flashed his gauche madonnas on a startled babbittry (TIME, Nov. 28). Those who like to read sermons into clay could speak about the "dignity of toil." Sculptor Young had modeled peasants with sad and sensitive faces, a young girl (Spring in Brittany), Porteuse de Pain, and Porteuse de Poissons, figures of women bent beneath burdens, so as to include not a story but the pitying emotion of a fine novel in their strong and individual faces. His prizefighters were less...
...Labor Bureau Inc., specialists in economic research for labor unions, last week estimated that throughout the U. S. 4,000,000 persons lacked work. One-third (250,000) of the soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...
...Astor family were not seamen historically. Less than 100 years ago John Jacob Astor, first of the clan to stamp his name upon U. S., was still selling furs and dealing in Manhattan real estate with such finesse as to rear an historic fortune. He begat William Backhouse Astor, called "Landlord of New York." who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat William Vincent Astor...