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...Dawes & Meyer for rail relief, the President cheerfully announced: 1) The roads' financial problem is "of smaller dimensions than has been generally believed or reported." 2) Between three and four hundred millions, and not a billion, will be required to help them through the year. 3) Of this, Railway Credit Corp. will supply a minimum of $50,000,000.* 4) "It is assumed that many bank loans will be continued in the normal way." 5) "Recourse to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. by the railroads will be much less than was originally thought...
Additional copies of "Mysticism and Democracy in the English Commonwealth", by R. M. Jones, professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, and "The Street Railway in Massachusetts", by Edward S. Mason, have been put on sale...
...Railway Labor Act was invoked by President Hoover in a proclamation to settle a wage dispute on the Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. and the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas R. R. Harvey Couch, one of President Hoover's R. F. C. directors, is president of the Louisiana & Arkansas, whose employes objected to a 15% wage cut. To a special board of settlement President Hoover appointed Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Justice Julian H. Moore of the Colorado Supreme Court and Dr. Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Passed a House bill instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the six-hour day for railway labor; sent it to the President...
...hardly more than one enormous jury to be swayed back & forth by courtroom oratory. Besides unhinging his office door, to fulfill his countless campaign pledges Mayor Dore must also cut all city salaries over $3,000, including his own, must dismiss the superintendent of the city-owned street railway system and, like Theodore Roosevelt two generations ago in New York City, must prowl the streets in disguise after dark to see if the police are properly beating their beats...