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Concerning the 20,000-mile cruise from which he, his 14 mates and the S. S. Arcturus were returning, Beebe added the following points to extensive reports he had sent off en route by radio (TIME, Mar 16, Apr. 27, May 11, July...
Last spring (TIME, Mar. 9) Congressmen decided to increase the pay of postal employes an aggregate of $68,000,000 a year. Congress was then in a nice quandary. How could it increase revenues that amount without offending everyone concerned? It patched up some kind of law and passed it, promising that it was only tentative and would be revised at the next session...
...soft-coal mines and diverting business to the non-Union fields of Kentucky, Tennessee and part of West Virginia-where operators cut prices by reducing wages. Now Union operators want to get back in business by cutting wages in competition-but their wage contract runs 18 months more (until Mar. 31, 1927). Hence the soft-coal trouble...
Panama. At Cristobal in the Panama Canal Zone, the arrival of U. S. General John J. Pershing, traveling as President of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission (TIME, Mar. 16, 23, 30), was enthusiastically signalled. Later, the General went to the city of Panama, paid his respects to President Rodolfo Chiari who was in mourning for a near relative. General Lassiter, Panaman soldier, gave a reception in honor of his U. S. comrade...
...Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...