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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arnold, lobbyist for the Southern Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of him and his activities. For the first time the Committee recommended legislation to "protect the public from this type of lobbying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Letters of Lakin | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...forth by an honest, candid man, is the train of thought by which 99 Britons out of 100 have arrived at the belief that it is right for them to have a larger navy than the U. S., which has so many less merchant ships and colonies to protect than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Unionization? | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Congress, asked for another commission of investigation. Since 1915 when President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was publicly butchered* and revolution and carnage reigned, the U. S. has exercised a virtual protectorate over Haiti. Under a 1916 treaty, U. S. armed forces are in the republic for three purposes: 1) to protect U. S. lives and property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering in Haiti's affairs. In 1919 occurred an uprising against the U. S. which Haitians claimed cost 3,500 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Black Friction | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...months Sheriff Sam Johnson vainly quizzed terror-muted hillbillies. At last an intercepted note furnished him a clue with which he wormed needful testimony from the girl and others. Five men, arrested last week, were held in separate jails to protect them from mobbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Ozark Oligarchy | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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