Breakup of Big Packers Endorsed by Attorney General
Attorney General Palmer announces a federal injunction decree breaking up Armour Morris Swift Wilson and Cudahy packers. They must sell stockyards rail interests and cold storage holdings, abandon unrelated businesses, and submit to court supervision for two years. The move aims to end packer control of meat markets and pricing with several senators weighing in.
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Armour & Co
Morris & Co
Swift & Co
Wilson & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
United States District Court
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Kenyon
Kendrick
Iowa
Wyoming
Attorney-General
Congress
Senate Agriculture Committee
Atttorney-General
Prince of Wales welcomed back to London
Sir Edward J. Cooper Lord Mayor of London hosts a formal welcome at Guildhall for the Prince of Wales after his Canada and United States tour. The event includes US Ambassador John W. Davis Premier Lloyd George Asquith high commissioner Sir George Perley and others. The prince praises US life and politics and says the war renewed British vitality.
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London
Edward Ji. Cooper
Guildhall
United States
Lfe
Great Britain
Washington
New York
Cardinal O Connell appeals for aid to Austria and central Europe
Cardinal O Connell urges Congress to adopt Hoover's grain relief plan for Austria and Poland. He appeals to prominent citizens and the press to press federal action through the Grants Corporation and possible legislation, to prevent millions from a dire fate. Signed by Cardinal William O Connell.
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Horver
United States Grants Corporation
Congress
William Cardinal Co’conntle
Cardinal's call to aid Vienna hunger and cold relief
In a Boston Post letter the cardinal urges Americans to act amid reports of 20 million at risk in Central Europe and 2 million near starvation in Vienna. He links Boston’s winter plight to European hunger and argues personal gifts are insufficient to meet the vast need.
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Boston Post
Vienna
Hoover
Europe
Germany
Boston
Lodge Planned as Chairman of Republican Convention
Washington December 18 tentative plans aim to name Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts as both temporary and permanent chairman of the Republican national convention. Earlier talk favored former Senator Elihu Root for temporary chairmanship, but the dual-lead plan first used in 1908 is expected to continue in 1920.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Elihu Root
Anti-Strike Bill Is Killed In House Vote
The anti-strike bill to prevent trolley workers under public control from striking was defeated in the House by a near unanimous vote. Only Representative Underhill of Somerville spoke in favor, after the committee on legal affairs reported adversely. He proposed substituting the bill and urged compulsory arbitration as a future standard.
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Department of Justice
Representative Underhill
Somerville
Committee On
Underhill
Dorpat Conference Delayed Breakoff Opens Baltic Debate
The Baltic conference negotiations are not definitively broken off as M Poska the Esthonian foreign minister will present the new Bolshevik boundary proposal to his government and possibly the constituent assembly. The situation remains uncertain but the public will have a real voice in the decision.
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Dorpat
M. Poska
Constituent Assembly
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