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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Subscriber Blake's photograph. Governor-elect Harry Woodring. first Democrat to win the governorship in Kansas since 1922, was born in Elk City in 1889. Only boy in a family of several girls, he early learned crocheting, a feat much stressed by his political opponents in the recent campaign. However, his pop corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke...
...Because of the ten-year increasing flood of anti-Prohibition propaganda which has, during recent months, almost engulfed every channel of publicity in America, without adequate challenge on the part of those who supported the 18th Amendment," Prohibitionist Charles Reading Jones of Chicago, chairman of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, announced that within a year he & associates would spend $3,000,000 to insert Dry advertising in 2,668 daily newspapers, 8,000 weekly and semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started...
...late spiritualist husband Lady Doyle declared: "I happen to know that [since his death] he could have gone very high, but deliberately remained behind in order to keep contact with the earth and influence the spiritualist movement." Thus did she refute recent testimony by a spiritualist medium that the soul of Sir Arthur was "earthbound...
Steel. Last week the European Steel Cartel renewed itself, but has abandoned an ambitious program, will concentrate on settling Franco-German differences. In the U. S. steelmen cooperate as shown in the recent price raise (TIME, Dec. 15). The fact that most steel companies are completely integrated units is beneficial...
...time U. S. producers seemed to have a gentleman's agreement on price. In copper as in other U. S. industries, however, anti-trust laws prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have been hindered by the rivalry between Bolivia and the Far East, and the introduction of much modern equipment...