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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1920
Page
5
Solomon Grossman of Shawmut Avenue faces charges in Central Court as Dr Styles of the Boston Board of Health condemns a long list of foodstuffs alleged for sale. The items include forty cans of herring and twenty-four cans of shrimp to be loaded on a scow and dumped in the harbor.
E F Grable of Boston was chosen president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railroad Shop Leaders at a meeting in Detroit with the grand lodge officers and executive board.
Bright entertaining fiction will begin in coming issues with Booth Tarkington's Ramsey Milholland. The Boston Sunday Post Magazine promises readers a popular serial starting next Sunday.
In New York on March 29 Hiram Johnson declared the League of Nations must become a political issue until Americans decide it. He said no other decision will be accepted by some men who have fought the matter in Washington over the last nine months.
Senator Johnson denounces the League of Nations covenant as a path to war, criticizing Article 10 and the heart of the covenant. He argues America must preserve sole control of its destiny and reject foreign diplomacy enforcing alliance obligations. He calls for decentralizing war powers from the administration and ending one man autocracy.
The City Council increased first assistant assessors pay from 1200 to 1500 dollars. The ordinance sets 750 dollars for outdoor work and 7 dollars for indoor work.
Senator Newberry of Michigan returned to Washington but will not resume his Senate seat until all questions from the Michigan election conspiracy convictions are resolved. He said he would not participate in Senate duties until the issues are cleared up before he returns from the Western holidays.
The text assumes the next step is in the committee on elections where the Ford-Newberry contest remains pending. Even if Mr Newberry does not participate in roll calls or votes, Senate control by one seat would stay Republican at 48 to 47.
Boston City Council must have five members present at 2 00 PM next Monday or President James T Moriarty will refuse to preside. Moriarty says the council has never been called to order on time due to lack of a quorum during his tenure.
Bay State Automobile Club president Jeass Houston will host mid week luncheons at Hotel Victoria. District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier will be guest of honor tomorrow at 12 30 and a large turnout is expected for his address on current legal topics.
The 1919 annual report of the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children at 241 St. Botolph Street notes a year of service to both the community and infirm children. Trustees cite diverse disabilities requiring individual supervision and plan to expand instruction toward vocational training. Charles M. Belknap of Dartmouth is named superintendent, bringing experience from the Massachusetts Hospital School.
The Brockton Building Trades Council opposes the Park Restaurant Company of Boston opening a Shan tung Inn Chinese restaurant in Brockton and plans to contest the action, possibly to the Supreme Court. Chris L Park, treasurer of Shan tung Inn Inc, asserts American citizenship and rights. The council has barred union labor from on site construction.
The City Council voted to appropriate 2500 from the reserve fund for the rent and housing committee under the Mayor to address alleged rent profiteering in the city.
Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve Board told the Senate that New York call money rates are not usurious under state law and no federal law covers the issue. He said the board will not investigate causes, though a memo cites unprecedented new securities issuance straining bank credit.
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