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...political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules, creating an NRA-like code for automobile dealers, giving the State Railway Commission jurisdiction over trucking, providing State regulation of itinerant merchants and gasoline transporters. The Unicam chiefly distinguished itself from other State Legislatures in enacting only one freak statute: a section in a bill providing for licensing of undertakers which empowers a governing board to suspend any licensee who uses profane...
...Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
...British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change to the White Pass & Yukon Railway which snakes across a lake region between mountains to Whitehorse and thence to Dawson...
Especially pleased with his deal was Premier Pattullo, who now has a much bigger provincial stick to wave at Ottawa. British Columbia was coaxed to join Canada's other provinces when they federated in 1871 on the promise that the Canadian Pacific Railway would begin to creep across it in two years, be completed in ten. Actually neither the Government nor the Canadian Pacific was in any hurry and the last spike was not driven until 1885, a fact which produced in British Columbia an attitude of injured self pity which its new size should tend to relieve...
...Hard-shelled Joe Ryan's inter-union wars threatened another serious strike before the week was out. His union served an ultimatum demanding jurisdiction over the contract loading of all railroad freight for lighterage about New York Harbor. The Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks which had controlled part of this work promptly countered with a set of demands upon the railroads, threatened a strike of 25,000 freight and express handlers, ticket sellers and railway station employes that would tie up railroad service in the whole New York City area. A serious strike depriving 7,000,000 people...