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...companies. It was found that the companies could be fined $200 per immigrant plus the amount of their passage money (usually about $100), both sums to be given over to the immigrants. With 1,800 immigrants involved, the fines aggregated over half a million dollars. The lines, of course, protested, to no avail. Since the transgressing ships could not get clearance papers unless a large deposit were paid against the forthcoming fines, the lines had little choice. The Baltic-American line was the first to pay, depositing under protest $100,000 in order that the Estonia (which arrived 15 seconds...
...general strike was proclaimed at Corufia in Spain as a protest against the war in Morocco. All stores were closed, tramways suspended service. To prevent disorders, police and civil guards patrolled the streets...
...both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said that the National City, Bank (New York) runs the sugar industry and the Rockefeller-Morgan interests run the railroads. Colonel Tarafa's interests lie with the latter. Cuban industry, much more honest than Cuban politics, is beginning to rise in protest against Colonel Tarafa's steamroller tactics in putting his bill through...
...which politicians are rejoicing since the ratification of the Five-Power Naval Treaty ran seriously counter to the plans of the Navy Department. The Budget Bureau lopped off $70,000,000 of the needs of the Department as estimated by the General Board. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt took a protest over this action to President Coolidge, on the grounds that such a course would take us down from our proper place in the 5-5-3 ratio...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...