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John W. Davis, failing to be elected to a given office, has yet been elected to several other offices without Republican opposition. On Jan. 13 he was elected director of the National Bank of Commerce; on Feb. 17 director and general counsel of the U. S. Rubber Co.; last week trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. to succeed the late General James H. Wilson, last surviving corps commander in the Union Army during the Civil...
House of Commons: ¶Debate on rubber restriction was opened in the House. Colonial Secretary Amery held that the scheme was intended to safeguard the industry from the effects of overproduction and that the high prices at present obtaining were due to speculators who had taken advantage of an immediate shortage to force prices up. Said he : "The greater part of the requirements for next year of most of the great rubber companies have been met at moderate prices." Former Colonial Secretary J. H. Thomas backed the present Minister. ¶ Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was asked...
English manufacturers have to pay just as much as Americans, but since the "U. S. is using 70% of the world's rubber supply, she is hard hit. Two years ago the U. S. paid less than $200,000,000 for British rubber. This year the rubber bill will probably go over $400,000,000 - two and a half times as much as Great Britain pays the U. S. annually on her War debt...
...rubber users are complaining. A few days ago they called on Secretary of State Kellogg to see whether he could do anything for them. Later they stopped at the British Embassy and asked it to send word to London that they would like more rubber...
...effect on the U. S. rubber industry has been marked. Wage cuts of 5% to 10% have been made by several companies. Prices of auto tires and tubes have been advanced 10% and 15%, other rubber goods as much as 20%- all to balance the books because of a larger item opposite "raw material...