Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, spoke smartly-tailored Newcomb Carlton, head of Western Union Telegraph Co., to the Interstate Commerce Committee of the U. S. Senate sitting to ponder national policy on communications, nerve of trade, nerve of war. Last month Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. had told the same Senate Committee that a merger of Radio Corp.'s wireless, Western Union's cables and International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless & cables was essential (TIME, Dec. 23). Argued Mr. Young: only by such a monopoly could U. S. communications compete with such monopolistic foreign communication systems as Britain's Cables & Wireless...
...Last week, along with Miss M. Lawrence Wetherill, Philadelphia socialite etcher, she was nominated for West Palm Beach's town council. Well trained in Democracy by her husband, her election seemed assured...
Before the City Council last week appeared Chicago's Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Sweepingly he vetoed two-thirds of the lean budget. Sweepingly he absolved his administration of blame for the fiscal fix, put the blame on real estate revaluators.* Generously he proposed a budget greater by $6,313,000 than Chicago's estimated 1930 revenue, demanded reinstatement of 1,502 employes. Galleries crammed with jobless Thompson men roared with applause when the City Fathers failed to override this program...
...nearly a week Chicago had been shy 473 policemen, 224 firemen, 1,400 other employes. Alarmed citizens forecast dire results: uncollected garbage, unshoveled snow, unquenched fires, uncaught criminals. Underwriters spoke of higher insurance rates. To thicken the fiscal fog. however, City Treasurer Charles S. Peterson, self-styled "Custodian of the City Deficit," reported that there was no money in the treasury to meet a Jan. 20 payroll...
...Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later infest. Just so, last week, the Supreme Economic Council of Soviet Russia, represented by Amtorg Trading Corp. in Manhattan, signed contracts to retain, the Detroit architectural firm of Albert Kahn, Inc., as consulting architects for two years of Russia's famed five-year industrialization program which calls for the expenditure...