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...cigaret smokers, although women at present are an important clientele; but the manufacturers feared arousing the latent U. S. hostility to tobacco (TIME, Jan. 31). Prohibition has taught them much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive...
...years ago Congress authorized the Navy to build eight light cruisers. Action has been taken to build five of these. President Coolidge in his budget message to Congress (TIME, Dec. 13) did not recommend appropriations for the remaining three cruisers; instead, he suggested that their construction be postponed as a means of bringing the naval powers of the world to a new disarmament agreement...
...others. This seemed like stalemate. Then announced the Mediation Board, meditatively: "The employers will appoint two wise men, the trainmen two others. Then this U. S. Mediation Board will appoint two more men to represent the public, and the six will constitute a Board of Arbitration, whose decision we recommend that you follow, although that is not obligatory. You can force a strike if you are really stupid." The Board of Arbitration met the end of October. On it sat For the railroads: Robert V. Massey of the Pennsylvania and William Ayer Baldwin of the Erie. For the workers...
...Treasury surplus to retire the national debt; this time the President had to make a political move and make it quickly. The announcement came from the White House: A study of the revenue returns shows a surplus in excess of $250,000,000; hence the President will recommend that Congress speedily vote a 10% or 12% rebate or refund on the income taxes payable in 1926 for incomes of the calendar year 1925. This applies to all corporations, industries, individuals, but not to so-called nuisance and admission taxes...
...kind-hearted big butter and egg man is this latest of Mr. Hargraves' novels. It is easy reading; entertaining, amusing, but of course, lacking in depth. It doesn't make you think, but it does make you smile. If that is what you are looking for, we recommend "And Then Came Spring" heartily...