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...comparable European countries tend to decrease. For the most recent comparable periods fire losses in Great Britain are calculated at less than $1 per capita per annum, while those of the United States are placed at approximately $5 per capita. . . . Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, recommend that the week beginning Sunday, Oct. 4, be observed as National Fire Prevention Week...
...Board, appointed by President Coolidge to investigate the nation's air policy and recommend the best means of carrying on development of military, naval and commercial aviation, last week got its inquiry under way. Dwight W. Morrow, chairman of the Board, and his associates including Senator Bingham, Admiral Fletcher, retired, and General Harbord, retired, temporarily put away all their private affairs and settled down in an intensive effort to complete their work by the third week in October and present their conclusions to the President not later than the latter part of November. Mr. Coolidge has laid down this...
...Coolidge has hit upon a good formula for handling controversial questions when the public demands that something be done. He appoints a commission to investigate and then recommend.* The recommendations then usually become part of the Administration's program...
Through the good offices of the Government, a textile strike, three weeks old, was ended. Under the terms of the agreement, the workers went back to the mills at the old scale of wages, pending an inquiry which is to recommend a new wage agreement. The strike was caused by the mill owners' announcement of an 8% reduction in wage...
Under the flexible provision of the last tariff law (1921), the Commission is ordered to investigate cases where complaints are made, determine for specific articles the costs of production in the U. S. and in the chief competing producing country, then to recommend increases or decreases of the tariff not to exceed 50% of the present law- which changes the President then may put into effect by proclamation. So far, few recommendations have been made, and practically all of them called for increases of the tariff. This situation, of course, has provoked criticism from low-tariff advocates. Recently...