Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus divided was the U. S. communication field last week when Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph Co., finished telling the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce what he thought about plans for merging all communication companies into one unit or, failing that, for International Telegraph & Telephone Co. to take over Radio Corp.'s communication business...
...Government last week gave Mexico positive assurances that hereafter the State of Texas would observe company manners toward Mexican statesmen in transit between the two countries. Result: the Mexican Government reopened its consulate at Laredo...
Before it modified its habitual criminal law, Michigan had sent six persons to the penitentiary for life as four-time violators of the State Prohibition Act. Last week Governor Fred Green, as an act of executive mercy, commuted the sentences of five of the six prisoners, to terms of seven-and-a-half-to-15 years. The sixth lifer had already committed suicide...
...harvester tycoon, Harold Fowler McCormick, has three passions: Music, Perfume, Feminism. For Music she has labored many a weary year without spectacular success. For Perfume, she has founded and guided to success Ganna Walska Perfumes, Inc., of Paris and New York. For Feminism she gained a victory last week when the Third Division of the U. S. Customs Court unanimously conceded her a legal residence other than that of her husband...
...that occasion City Manager William Rowland Hopkins breathed a happy sigh, looked out into the night, and declaimed: "The future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moonbeams." Had he been a sterner, less rhapsodical prophet, he would have chosen another simile, for last week, less constant than the moon, the City Council voted him out of the office he had held and defended for six years...