Tariff inquiry urged to curb foreign competition boost
Edward W. Pickard reports President Hoover and Fr ank X. Eble pressing for rapid tariff investigation to shield American industries and workers from cheap imports. The Commerce Department list cites sixteen affected sectors and cites currency depreciation abroad as worsening cost differentials. Meanwhile, U.S. Steel votes to maintain a dividend despite quarter losses as market mood stays volatile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank X. Eble
United States Commissioner of Customs
Eble
Washington
Hoover
Federal Tariff Commission
Rober L. O'Brien
Commission
Vetter
United States
Commerce Department
Debates Over War Debts Lag as Elections Loom
France and Britain delay decisive action on war debts to the United States until after the presidential election. France plans to pay December 14 but no payment is shown in the budget. In London, Neville Chamberlain avoids committing to a debt stance amid questions in Parliament. The League of Nations prepares for a November session on Manchuria and the Lytton report with Japan and China represented by top diplomats.
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United States Steel Corporation
Wall Street
Gnanda
Bice
Oversor Roosevelt
Albany
Middle West
South
Mr. Hoover
Boston
New York
Hoover
Indianapolis
Washingtton
Newark
N. J
New York City
Everal
England
Scotland
Wales
London
Dole
Metropolitan
Oswald Mosley
East End
Parliament Buildings
Trafalgar Square
Sirswald
India Office
Mahatma Gandhi
All- India Congress Party
Mor
House of Lords
MacDonald
Taly
Mussolini
Mosloz
Turin
Milan
Doce
Wmade
United States
Gomeny
Italy
League of Nations
League
France
Crewe
Humbert
Duce
Europe
Raymond Robins
Chicago
Robins
Progressive Party
Allinola
Meine
Ploria
Snooper
Florida
Chamber of Deputies
Severnl Das
Previncaly
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Assembly of the
League of Nation
Lytton
Japan
China
Yosuke Mutamoka
Geneva
Youen“s Lane
United Sires
Washington
Shaanghai Court of
Ippeals
Etratory Matsunka
Thineh
God
Wealthy Unmarried Women Shape Newport Society
A Newport feature profiles twelve unattached women controlling vast fortunes, eleven widows and one never married. It highlights Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and other magnates from the Vanderbilt and Duke circles, with homes on Bellevue Avenue and famed estates like The Breakers and The Moorings.
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Newport
Gladys Vanderbilt
Hamilton McK. Twombly
Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-seventh Street
New York City
Anita Stewart
Miguel de Bragangen
the Glen
la Seadie Marrakad
Morocco
America
Mra
James B. Duke
North Carolina Tobacco Eine
Duke University
North Carolina
Doris
Duke
Mra Brown
Watchman Fights for Four-Year Five-Cent Pay
Washington report notes Alonis L. Keefer, a war trade board watchman, resigned May 18 1928. Government says he is still due funds under the government employees retirement fund. Reefer filed and pursued Keefer’s retirement money, with letters and visits, finalizing August 28 1987.
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Washington
Alonis L. Keefer
War Trade Board
Keefer
Government Employees Retirement Fund
Reefer
Ferryman Probes Sea Gull Foot Pain On San Francisco Bay
San Francisco ferry conductor Ed Spellman claims sea gulls suffer fallen arches from land and water shocks. He notes gulls lack heel pads, see commuters observe birds daily, and discusses the birds loitering near docks and the impact on their feet.
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San Francisco
Ed Spellman
Spellman
San Francisco Bay
Spelmnenn
E-Gull
Tve
Ansbody
Living Costs Near Present Day Income Amid Slump Figures
Chicago researchers publish a compendium showing living costs and prices tracking national income decline since 1929. It notes farm and textile prices fallen sharply, fuels and housing costs down, and overall living items aligning with reduced national income levels.
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Chicago
Posathia
Drunken fish walk ashore in California river slough
In Moss Landing California two hundred fish staggered from the Moro Cojo slough toward the air and died after a bizarre sequence. Local residents including Moses Landing's prominent figures insist the event is real and not a fish story despite liquor-fueled effects.
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Moses Landing
Moro Cojo
Earth
Tar and Feather Indignation in Village Over Tax Foreclosures
Anger over tax foreclosures among local villagers escalates to tar and feather threats. Farmers, unable to obtain tar or feathers, turn to stripping the tax collectors in a public display of protest.
The Dinner Party That Lifted Roger True
Roger True attends a Shaw dinner where hosts and guests treat him as an important figure. Stella Hows and Mrs Shaw boost his status, and he faces mixed feelings about being seen as successful. Stella reveals she vouched for him to the Shaws, prompting conversations about his supposed achievements.
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Molly
Roger True
Shaw Agale
Durant
Fee
Durod
Roger
Shaw
Creetine
Stella
Stein
Mrs. Shaw
Stellan
the Shaws
Shaws
Moyer
Gorreors
Tve
Durands
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Edward W. Pickard
Borah
Idahoanm
Stolth
House of Commons
Charles Lind*berg
Jon Morrow Lindbergh
Jon
Lindbergh
Morrow
Mia
Dwight W. Morrow
Betty Gow
Englewood
McKee
Board of Estimate of
Thirty-eighth Street
Hudson River
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Port Authority
F. X. Eble
Sir Gerald Mosley
Raymond Robina
Dr. Yuen-L) Liang
Elena Percy
Plettenberg
Louisiana State University
James M. Smith
Misa Percy
Smith
James Laurens van Alen
Wakehurst
Mra T. Shaw
Ocean Lawn
Edward ¥. Hartford
Ferryman
Hawkeye
Howard Momit
Untercity of Iowa
California
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