Mayflower Society Votes $100 to Defenders
At a meeting of the Massachusetts Mayflower Descendants at 63 Mt. Vernon Street, the society appropriated 100 from its treasury for the defenders of public safety. It opposed renaming city squares and unanimously backed the Mayor Governor and police commissioner in the Boston police strike. Harold Standish Bradford presided.
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Massachusetts
Mt. Vernon Street
Defenders of Public Safety
Boston
Harold Standish Bradford
Bowdoin Opens 118th Year With 400 Student Registration
Bowdoin College in Brunswick opened its 118th year today with about 400 students enrolled among them roughly one percent are freshmen.
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Bowdoin
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
Tragoot Investigation Leads to Quiet Tests
We had already investigated them carefully and tried them out quietly. The report notes thorough scrutiny and subtle evaluation before any public action or decision was taken.
Promises Must Be Redeemed Call for Legion Reforms
The American Legion Weekly publishes recommendations for changes in the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The plan urges redemption of old promises and ending the practice of sending crippled veterans to public charities for aid.
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New York
American Legion Weekly
American Legion
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Weekly attack on Congress and War Risk Insurance Bureau
The Weekly claims Congress has finally enacted a workable law and that the War Risk Insurance Bureau is no longer part of rehabilitating disabled veterans. It urges the vocational board to reform, cast aside incompetence, decentralize, and empower district offices to reduce duplication.
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Congress
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Cigarette Prices Fall In Some Stores
Prices for Turkish and Egyptian cigarettes drop from 20 cents to 18 cents per ten pack while larger 20 cent packs remain 235 cents. Manufacturers claim surplus stock and chain-store competition drive the cut with a broader cut expected before Christmas.
War Cross for Colonel Thaw
Forty five American officers and soldiers decorated for gallant action in Europe parade at Guy Hall plaza before French British Italian Belgian and American representatives. Colonel William Thaw an ace in the Lafayette Escadrille received the Croix de Guerre with palm. Three women attended in place of deceased relatives.
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Guy Hall Plaza
France
England
Italy
Belgium
United States
William Thaw
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