Political intrigue and campaign finance under Senate inquiry
Senate probes into preconvention campaign spending reveal large sums raised by leaders and candidates. Details show Lowden, Johnson, Hoover, and Wood funds with significant contributors. Palmer and Cox campaigns also examined. Michigan and Ohio campaigns noted for high costs. predictions for the 1920 Republican nominating process stir speculation.
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Borah
Senate
Hiram Johnson
Knox
Senate Committee
Johnson
Lowden
Colonel Proctor
Wood Organization
Wood Fund
Proctor
Ambrose Monell
New York
William Wrigley, Jr
AL Bylesby
Doctor Butler
Palmer
Menyoun
Carlin
J. Bruce Sterling
Pennsylvania
Crucible Steel Company
Herbert Dupuy
Yallern
New Jersey
Evwards
Cox
Michigan
Ohio
Samuel Gompers Attacks Congress and Labor Profiteers
The article reports Samuel Gompers denouncing Congress and executive departments for cost of living failures and urging an overturn in Congress to elect labor allies. He demands immediate action to curb price rises, calls for repeal of laws like the Esch Cummins railroad act, and criticizes profiteering while praising enforcement moves and indictments against firms like American Woolen and Weed & Co.
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Samuel Gompers
Congress
Executive Departments
Esch- Cummins Railroad
Kansas Court of Industry
Gompers
Palmer
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Weed & Co
Buffalo Clothiers
Hazel
American Woolen Company
William M. Wood
Wood
Meteorograph Kite Instrument Demonstration In Scranton
Prof Charles F Marvin head of the US Weather Bureau explains a new self recording instrument called a meteorograph. It rises with a large box kite tethered by a piano wire and uses a steel drum to feed wire. A Georgia test line lost a mule but the device remained unharmed after crews freed the animal.
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Charles F. Marvin
United States Weather Bureau
Tte
Georgia
Belgium Faces Coal Shortage Hurdles in Rehab
Three main stumbling blocks impede Belgium’s industrial rehab: coal shortage, weak transport facilities, and an unfavourable exchange. Early gold coins are linked to Miletus around 800 BC. Switzerland enforces planting six trees after marriage and two at each birth.
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Belgium
Miletus
Asia Minor
Switzerland
New Roosevelt Bust By Miserendino Praised
Three quarter view of the new Theodore Roosevelt bust by Vincenzo Miserendino draws praise as one of the finest depictions of the former president.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Vincenzo Miserendino
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