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Beaten in Congress, angry Arizona last week began in the U. S. Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional...
...Trust Law. The Government's charge: they were attempting to create a food monopoly by handling 114 food products other than meat (canned fruits, canned vegetables, dairy goods, cereals), by retailing their own products, by buying heavily into cold storage, stockyard and terminal railroad companies. The packers settled the suit by consenting to drop all production unrelated to the meat industry, to abandon the retail field. In 1920 a Federal Court ratified this consent decree, which the U. S. Supreme Court upheld...
...their suit last week they asked Justice Jennings Bailey to allow them to: 1) own and operate retail markets; 2) deal in the 114 food products now prohibited; 3) own interests in stockyard companies and terminal railroads. They were ready to show that their refrigerator cars, from the roofs of which they hang their meat, have large unoccupied spaces below in which canned goods could be economically transported. New, quick processes for freezing meat have opened up new retailing possibilities. Lawyer Hogan's chief argument: times have changed, and nobody could possibly monopolize the country...
Paderewski, nearing 70, arrived look-ing tired and thin after his recent illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take...
...white-collar workers--stenographers, book-keepers, and accountants. Green told of the union's never-ending fight for higher wages and better living conditions, and also outlined a national 48-hour law which would equalize industries throughout the United States, yet permit the payment of varying wages to suit the conditions and caliber of workers in the various states. By this method of uniform working hours no company would be forced to compete against the longer hours of another, and yet the more efficient workers of an industrial city could receive wages commensurate with their ability...