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Because the War Debt agreements are not treaties but revenue laws of the U. S., the President's most able advocates of postponed collections marched not to the Senate but to the Ways & Means Committee of the House to make their best pleas. First to enter the ornate marble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Amendment by Rage | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

In Canada and Chicago. Last week the Canadian Board of Conciliation recommended a 10% wage cut for Canada's 27,000 railroad employes. Closely allied with U. S. unions, Canadian labor leaders were bitterly disappointed, declared they would submit the matter to arbitration. In Chicago this week the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wabash Blues | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

The plan is a significant one. In contrast to Owen D. Young's tearful pleas for money to tide over the starving, here is a hard-headed measure of a man's real willingness to work. The asperities of rock-hammer and timber-axe will soon enough sort out the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TURNING STONES INTO BREAD | 11/25/1931 | See Source »

...eyes, Governor-elect Moore responded to the cheers of several thousand Jersey City friends who set off fireworks. Beside themselves with enthusiasm, the mob then rushed Governor-elect Moore, broke in the derby hat of "Boss" Frank Hague, ruler of Jersey's Democracy. Heavy-jowled Boss Hague looked pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Off-Year Votes | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Meantime, word came that Johnny ("The Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: U. S. v. Gangs | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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