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...significant were the breaks in party lines. Twenty Democrats, mostly from Florida (which got higher duties on fresh vegetables and fruit) and Louisiana (which got a higher duty on sugar) sidled over to vote with the Republican majority. Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic opposition. Most of them were midWest insurgents. One of them was an eastern regular-Philadelphia's Beck...
...Samuel Emory Thomason, half of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (TIME, May 20), also testified. He admitted that he had been commissioned by International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...
Last week the Kansas City Southern R. R. cut its wheat rate 7 cents per 100 Ib. from midwest points to gulf ports. Wheat exporters were ready to leap with joy. Then eastern railroad executives (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading, Lehigh Valley) met in Washington, recognized "an emergency of national proportions," volunteered to cut their freight rates from the Mississippi Valley to North Atlantic seaports on wheat for export. The reductions per bushel (60 Ib.) would be: 2 cents from Buffalo, 4 cents from Chicago, 5 cents from St. Louis...
Western railroad executives then met in Washington to consider similar reductions which, if added to those by the eastern carriers, would move each bushel out of the glutted midwest to Atlantic seaports at about 9 cents per bushel cheaper than at present. The Shipping Board was approached to establish emergency freight rates on wheat to European ports as an additional means of increasing the outflow from...
Essence of the Midwest was Author Bromfield's best book (The Green Bay Tree). Accurately New England was his Pulitzer Prize novel (Early Autumn). Awake and Rehearse includes a third sort of American, the Henry James-Edith Wharton expatriate variety. Bubbling over with abundance of "material," Author Bromfield has been praised for having much to say, blamed for saying it hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death...