Texas Senate Adopts Resolution on Railroad Consolidation
Texas senate actions include a unanimous approval urging the Interstate Commerce Commission to rescind its denial of authority to consolidate the International-Great Northern with the St Louis San Francisco. Debates covered the Dinkle income tax bill and other revenue measures with lengthy discussion and votes.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Senate
Pollard
Darwin
Interstate Commerce Commision
Ihs
International-Great Northern
St. Louis San Francisco
Senate
Stuart
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Louis
San Francisco
Clark
Assurance of Abiding Peace Across Nations
Secretary Hughes told the National Conference of Social Work that America enjoys every assurance of abiding peace with other peoples. He said clouds in the Far East two years ago have dissipated and that bitterness is not patriotism, as the nation has been able to associate with the great.
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Washington
America
Hughes
National Conference of Social Work
Lieutenant Governor Davidson Proposes Major Texas Budget Cuts
Lieutenant Governor T W Davidson proposes reducing state appropriations by about 6 million dollars and enacting an income tax to cover a projected 10 million dollar two year deficit. He lists specific cuts to education rural aid emergency school aid reclamation and flood control and department appropriations. An income tax could yield 3 million annually with additional revenue measures adding 1 million. He urged quick legislative action to avoid a longer session.
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Senate
Austin
Tex
Thomas
Bell
House
Nelson-Culp
Baldwin
Culp
Carpenter
Lackey
Cable
Baker
Smith
Melson
Moore
State University
Neff
Stuart of Tarrant
Floyd
Perdue
Pope
T. W. Davidson
Texas
Davidson
State Department
Washington War Claims Commission Sees Umpire Change
A partial reorganization of the mixed claims commission handling $1.479 billion in war claims against Germany follows the retirement of Justice Day. Judge Edwin B. Parker of Texas was appointed by President Harding to succeed Day as umpire. Baldwin Succeeds Bonar Law in London as exchequer chancellor becomes prime minister after the king offered the post. Bonar Law resigns due to ill health, leaving Britain with unsettled issues with France and Russia.
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Washington
Mixed Claims Commission
United States
Germany
Justice Day
The
Supreme Court
Edwin B. Parker
Texas
Harding
Baldwin
Bonar Law
London
Stanley Baldwin
Andrew Bonar Law
Lord Stamfordham
George Sunday
Great Britain
France
Russia
America’s War Claims Totaled Over One Trillion Dollars
The mixed claims commission hears a total war claims amount of 1 479 064 313 92 dollars. The United States government requests 366 133 000 dollars as its own claim, among 12 416 filed claims ranging from 1 dollar upward.
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Washington
America
Germany
Mixed Claims Commission
United States
Commission
Powers of the Pacific in Friendly Accord Cited by Hughes
Mr Hughes hailed a Pacific power accord backed by mutual confidence while preserving American tradition of freedom from alliance. He credited the Washington arms conference with achieving a disarmament of thought, scrapping distrust and war vessels, and ending wasteful competition that bred suspicion.
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Pacific
Hughes
Washington
Wolves of Wall Street Speech Sparks Senate Plan
During a congressional adjournment, diplomacy seeks a plan to curb Senator Heflin of Alabama from lengthy repeating speeches on the same topic. Senator Smoot recounts William M. Nelson of Utah praying hours daily and enforcing family prayers, then returning to the game, illustrating how Heflin’s cadence might be managed with time.
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Congress
John Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Wall Street
Smoot
Heflin
William M. Nelson
Utah
Sun’s Cooling Observed by Dr. Abbot at National Academy
Dr C G Abbot reports unusual fall in sun’s heat with temperatures measured daily at two high stations Mount Harqua Hala Arizona and Mount Montezuma Chile. He notes no prior comparable change since 1906, without predicting duration or cause beyond solar conditions.
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C. G. Abbot
National Academy of Sciences
Mount Harqua Hala
Ariz
Mount Montezuma
Chile
Abbot
National Academy
Famous British Bobby Pays Us a Visit
Portrait of Gen Sir William Horwood, head of New Scotland Yard, arriving in New York to attend an international police conference. Horwood rose from Fifth Lancer captain to lead Britain’s police during World War I and earned multiple honors before Knighthood.
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William Horwood
Scotland Yard
New York
William
Fifth Lancer
Great Eastern
France
Order of the Bath
New Scotland Yard
Thames Embankment
Old Scotland Yard
Whitehall
Metropolitan Police
Dr Henry Van Dyke Praised At Izaak Walton League Banquet
Diplomat and author Dr Henry Van Dyke spoke at the closing banquet of the first national convention in Chicago of the Izaak Walton League of America. He described an outdoor religion and urged one million principled American sportsmen to join to influence state and federal government. Outdoor enthusiasts nationwide are joining with chapters forming from Maine to the Pacific.
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Henry van Dyke
Chicago
Izaak Walton League of America
van Dyke
United States
The
Pacific
Maine
Market conditions report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
The latest market bulletin shows weaker feed markets with linseed meal and cotton seed meal declining, and bran prices slipping in Kansas City. Wheat and corn futures fluctuated with cash grains strong, hogs and cattle mostly higher, and hay supplies light. Regional fruit, vegetable, and dairy prices varied with mixed gains and declines across key commodities.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Kansas City
Northwest
Southwest
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Chicago
Memphis
Atlanta
Buffalo
New Mexico
Timothy
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Prairie
Iowa
North Dakota
Kansas
Winnipeg
Boston
Florida
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arkansas
Texas
Bermuda
F.o.b
South Carolina
Baltimore
Alabama
Bliss
Carolina
Virginia
Wakefield
North Carolina
Arkansas Klondike
Noise Wins and the Teaching Pay Gap
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt notes the stark pay contrast between a Greek professor and a football coach. The professor earns about $3,000 annually while the coach earns around $12,000, with the quip about 40,000 people cheering a Greek recital highlighting public sentiment on the imbalance.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
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Austin, Tex
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