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...official took the notes. Candidate MacDonald seemed to feel that he had proved something, something having to do with the fact that in his Prime Ministry the pound was forced off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). Fighting later in Seaham, his constituency, Candidate MacDonald faced crowds of chalky-faced, peak-nosed miners, some of whom sang insultingly...
Upstairs, the old faculty room has been turned into a History and Government 1 reading room, which was used by an average of 155 men a day last week, the peak being reached on Sunday, when 464 were counted. From now on Freshmen will be allowed to take books out and use them in other parts of the building. The old Union library of about 1,000 volumes is still intact, and has been increased by the English A library...
During the War the A. F. of L.'s membership doubled to its highest peak (4,078,740). President Samuel Gompers was taken abroad to be presented to George V of England and to sit (unofficially) at the Peace Conference. In the light of subsequent developments, his critics feel that he might have shaped U. S. Labor into a great political and economic power by taking advantage of stressful times instead of trading a great opportunity for a slightly fatter pay envelope...
...this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached 500,000 weekly, at 15? per disc; but the average is about 200,000. Formerly these tenin. discs played for only three min.; now, through a new "micro-channel" process (more grooves), introduced three or four months ago, they play for five min. The Durium Junior will...
...with others given out at the White House last week by Secretary Walter Hughes Newton, who said he had got his from the Census Bureau, not at the instance of President Hoover but for an enquirer whose name was not revealed. Government statistics showed that in 1914, at the peak of U. S. brewing, some 75,000 men were employed in breweries. By 1919, State Prohibition laws had cut that number to 42,000. Still making near beer are 6,500 workers...