Senate Passes Bonus Bill Amid Strong Amendments
Senate supporters press ahead with the bonus bill as two key amendments move the measure toward potential veto. The Simmons plan uses foreign debt interest to fund the bonus, while another amendment reshapes coal and labor emergency provisions, complicating House-Senate negotiations. President Harding may veto despite bipartisan backing.
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Simmons
North Carolina
House
Senate
Harding
Treasury Mellon
Washington
Labor union seeks living wage for railroad workers
F Grable representing the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railroad Shop Laborers petitioned the railroad labor board for a new wage scale and recognition of a living wage. The board declined, asserting a just and reasonable wage as defined by the board. Grable then wired Chairman Cummins of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee urging amendment of transportation laws to guarantee a minimum living wage for railroad employees.
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Edward W. Pickard
United States
Ieriday
HH. Wilkerson
Chicago
Daugherty
Wilkerson
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Goompers
Goimpers
Poblic
Calbiay Employees’ Department
A.t. of L
F. Grable
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
Railway Labor Board
Senate Passes Soldiers Bonus Bill With 47 to 22 Vote
The senate approved the soldiers bonus measure by 47 to 22 as 27 were absentees or paired. Analysts say 15 would have supported the bill, totaling 62 in favor, still short of a two thirds override. Before passage, two amendments were adopted including a $350,000,000 appropriation for arid and swamp land reclamation to create farms.
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Senate
McNary
Oregon
Stepad Hean
Johnson seals renomination in heated primary race
Senator Hiram Johnson wins renomination after a tense primary. Incumbent congressmen were renominated. State bankers W Richardson tops Gov Stephens in the Republican gubernatorial race. District Attorney T L Woolwine heads the Democratic ticket, noted as a wet candidate while Richardson leans dry.
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Ac Aes
Hiram Johnson
C. C. Moore
Ucankies
W. Richardson
W. D. Stephens
T. L. Woolwine
Richardson
Entente Struggles Over Italian Austrian Expansion Plan
USTMLA faces Italy Austria economic union talks with Britain and France said to back the plan. Jugoslavia opposes stronger Italy and seeks Magyar lands, while irregulars spark fears of invasion. Czechoslovaks eye northern Austrian provinces and Hungary vows to resist wartime troop movement through its territory.
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Ustmla
Italy
Entente
Austria
Great Britain
France
Adriatic
Jugo- Slavia
Mlagenfurt
Jugo-Slavia
Budapest
Andrassy
Hungarian Foreign Affairs Committee
Hungary
Germany Accepts Belgian Italian Plan to Ease Reparations
Under the plan Germany will pay 70 million dollars in treasury bonds to Belgium, with Brussels to receive the year’s balance. A six month moratorium on 1922 payments is granted and a November conference will set the 1923 schedule. The decision averts immediate French action and satisfies the reparations commission.
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Belgium
Germany
John Bradbury
Berlin
Brussels
Unti
Vessels Sink in Pacific and Mine Fire Traps Miners
Several disasters struck last week as a Chilean ship sank off Coquimbo with 316 drowned and six saved, the Japanese cruiser Nittke vanished in a typhoon with heavy loss feared, and in Jackson California a gold mine fire trapped 47 miners beneath upper levels with no rescue seen yet.
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Coquimbo
Nittke
Jackson
Cal
Thoughts on Courage and the Tide of Fate
A meditative essay contrasts a man’s belief in his own prowess with the harsh tests of life. As gossip and adversity threaten, true resolve is shown by gripping the wheel and pressing forward to make port, despite forces pulling toward ruin.
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Lfe
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Iddies Six By Will M Maupin
A bereaved speaker recalls a keepsake box filled with tear stained memories and hidden relics of a lost baby boy. The poem links grief to childhood treasures like a shoe a cap and a top, noting death will someday blur the past yet keepsake mementos endure.
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Will M. Maupin
Ottier's Cook Book Wisdom on Will Versus Wish
A fragment praises action over desire citing a Chinese saying that great souls have wills while feeble ones have only wishes. The note contrasts wishing with making things happen and emphasizes intentional effort.
Ponge Cake Recipe Fragment
A bitten recipe reads to take four eggs and sugar and flour in equal measures with one half cup of sugar and one half cup of flour. It shows a basic sponge cake preparation portion of steps.
Accuracy First in a World of Quick Work
John Blake argues that accuracy must precede speed, citing a rapid but misleading blackboard trick. He warns against sacrificing correctness for haste, noting many industries suffer yearly from careless mistakes. The quicker worker is valued only if results consistently check out.
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Chicago and Alton Road
New York
Atlantic Coast
Popper
Reed
Pennsylvania
Miners’ Scale Committee
United States
John Blake
The Value of Laughter for Rest and Happiness
The article extols laughter as medicine for the mind and body. It quotes Thackeray on sunshine from laughter and urges seeking real mirth to relieve daily cares and vice versa to improve mood, nerves, and social life.
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Thackeray
Wheeler Syndicate,Inc
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Dublin
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Gloucester
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California
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Vassar
Were
Weastern
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Ottier
Tae
Piro
Walter J. Robinson
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