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Boston Mayor attacks Congress and ICC over freight rates
Boston Mayor Curley denounces Vice President Coolidge Secretary Weeks and Speaker Gillette for not aiding local commerce. He targets the Interstate Commerce Commission for high Atlantic rates, cites Chicago to Pacific and Gulf routes, and highlights a hearing on Boston's freight differential with Maritime Association leaders and grain exporter George W. Eddy as key witnesses.
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Boston
Washington
National Capital
Coolidge
War Weeks
Gillette
House of Representatives
Curley
Interlastate Commerce Commission
Congress
Chicago
Pacific
Gulf Ports
Atlantic Seaboard
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles F. Gerry
Maritime Association of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Rank S. Davis
George W. Eddy