Cape Cod Residents Protest High Living Costs Amid Probes
Cape Cod shoppers press profiteering complaints on 14 cent sugar 70 cent butter and 16 cent bread as state and federal probes unfold. A Suffolk grand jury weighs criminal action for profiteering while army surplus prices via parcel post and city centers draw attention.
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Cape Cod
Boston
Massachusetts
Cape
State Commission On the Necesaries of Life
Post
State House
Suffolk County Grand Jury
Credit Men Say Excess Profits Tax Hurts Cost of Living
The National Association of Credit Men announces that excess profits taxes contribute to high living costs. It urges President Wilson and Congress to repeal consumption taxes on necessities. R. G. Elliott, leading the advisory panel, notes the 29,600 members from industry, wholesale, and finance back the call.
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Wilson
New York
National Association of Credit Men
Congress
R. G. Elliott
United States
Lifeguard Rescues Girl at City Point Beach
Gus W. Jennings of the City Point Volunteer Life Saving Station saved an unidentified girl who dived from a raft and nearly drowned yesterday afternoon. She refused to give her name and was treated at the station before disappearing into the beach crowd.
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City Point
Gus W. Jennings
Volunteer Life Saving Station
Jennings
Holmes Voices Peaceful Labor Reform At Ford Hall Forum
John Haynes Holmes founder and pastor of the Community Church of New York spoke from the Parkman Bandstand in Boston yesterday. He argued against strike methods as expensive and unwarranted and proposed a labor party that could dominate the United States without violence or bombings.
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Boston
Women's Committee For Public Service
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church of
New York
Parkman Bandstand
Boston Common
Ford Hall
United States
No Friend of Capital Says Socialism Is No Dictatorship
Pastor Holmes argues against capitalist rule and violence, urging a peaceful labor party in the United States. He warns that violence by unions or militants alienates public opinion and shifts debate to the legitimacy of violence. George W. Coleman, chairman, manages a Q and A session after the talk.
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Mr. Holmes
Trades Unions
Socialist Party
Soviets
Russia
United States
England
Great Britain
George W. Coleman
Holmes
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Boston, Mass
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Ohio
Spea
Ireland
America
Jan Christian Smuts
London
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Senate
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Egypt
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Republic
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