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...request of the committee which considered this legislation the Post Office Department made a special investigation of the range of salaries paid to persons employed in business institutions throughout the country and reported the results. These investigations covered representative cities ranging in population from 2,000 to over 5,000,000. It was found that in all cases of employes of similar character the average salaries paid were much lower than those paid in the postal service. . . . There is a wide difference in the cost of living in the larger cities and industrial centres as compared with the smaller cities...
...Indiana Convention acceded nominally to Mr. Ralston's request. It chose an uninstructed delegation to go to the convention. But Taggart will head it and it will go to Manhattan with Ralston in its heart...
...plenary session of the Anglo-Russian Conference was to have been held in London during the past week, but was suddenly canceled at the request of Christian Rakovsky, Russian Charge d'Affaires in London and head of the Bolshevik delegation to the Conference...
...request made by Sir Brodrick Hartwell, Bart., for subscriptions to buy liquor abroad and ship it to the rum fleet off the shore of the U. S. threatens to become an international incident. The Baronet's first appeal was to British investors and led to a controversy with Premier MacDonald, who referred to his activities as a "disgraceful blot" (TIME, June 9). Apparently British contributors were not forthcoming. But Sir Brodrick is not easily discouraged. His next appeal was made to Americans. He obtained a "sucker list" and mailed a glowing prospectus to the names upon it, which, under...
...renown of his remarkable career, but he appreciates to the full the admirable qualities of Mr. Hanihara, he holds in highest esteem the splendid attributes of Mr. Hughes, and, in the course of his supplementary speech on May 8, while regretting his inability to grant the President's request for an extension of time in which to negotiate abrogation of the agreement with Japan, did not he say, with courtliness approaching enthusiasm, of Mr. Coolidge...