Foraker Resolution Seeks Details on Brownsville Inquiry
Senator Foraker introduced a resolution demanding the War Secretary disclose when Brownsville case investigators began, their instructions and pay, assistants, and authority. The measure, referred to the Military Affairs Committee, asks why detectives are employed and funded, and notes only five of seventeen implicated testified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senator Foraker
Secretary of War
Brown
Baldwin
Brownsville
Warren
Committee On Military Affairs
Judge Advocate General
Legal Department of
Army
Congress
Committee On
Boyd Conyers
Elmer Brown
John Alligon
Reid
Gioclose
Mr. Foraker
Forest preservation urged by Whipple at New York hearing
James S Whipple Forest Fish and Game Commissioner argued for strong forest protection in New York state citing high timber harvests and low water in reservoirs. He urged laws to save forests and protect birds and called for an efficient Adirondack fire patrol after a 1500 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adirondack
Catekill
Eccpus
Hudson
Lake George
Pennsylvania
New Tork
Adirondacks
Wassermucker New Word Emerges In Prohibition Debate
Chisago reports President Schneider of the Chicago Board of Education releasing a letter from A. W. May, federal commissioner at Dallas, praising a public school teacher who opposed the anti liquor movement. The term wassermucker describes a person active against liquor traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chisago
Schneider
Chicago Board of Educration
A. W. May
Dallas
Texas
Ermrethy
Wassermucker
Mucker
May
Wassermuckers
Echneider
Muckreker
Bureau of Children Established Under Interior Department
Representative Herbert Parsons introduced a bill to create a bureau of children under the Interior Department. It would appoint a chief at 5090 dollars yearly and other staff to collect statistics on child health birth rates illegitimacy labor and education for reporting to Congress with recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Herbert Pareons
Interior Department
Bureau
Congress
Parsons
Roosevelt Hails St Gaudens As Great Sculptor At Exhibition
President Roosevelt praised Augustus St Gaudens as a premier sculptor whose works will rank among the era's masterpieces during an opening at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Ambassadors Jusserand Nabuco Bryce Takahira and others lauded the artist and his achievements.
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Washington
Augustus St. Gaudens
Roosevelt
St. Gaudens
Corcoran Gallery of Art
American Institute of Architects
St. Gandens
America
St. Gardens
William Tecumseh Sherman
J. Gaudens
New York
Joaquim Nabuco
Sherman
James Bryce
Ireland
British Isles
Takahira
Japan
Root
Relief debate at National Civic Federation sessions
Industrial insurance and the salary loan controversy dominated discussions at the National Civic Federation gathering at the Hotel Astor. Labor, employers, and insurers debated negligence, compensation, and the need for reform, with speakers from Krupp Germany and Canada’s Labor Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Civic Federation
Hotel Astor
Krupp Gun Works
Germany
Labor Department of Canada
Taft
Woman's Department of
Federation
William J. Moran
Moran
Labor and Capital Clash at Civic Federation Dinner
The National Civic Federation dinner brought labor leaders like Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell together with capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie and Taft staff. Speakers urged labor presence, discussed an employers liability act, arbitration, and faster justice to ease court backlogs while highlighting a cross class dialogue on industry reform.
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Willcox
Public Service Commission
Welfare Department
Madison Square Garden
National Civic Federation
Lee K. Frankel
Sage Foundation
Marcus M. Marks
Merchants’ Association
Haley Fiske
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Hoffman
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Federation
Seth Low
Samuel Gompers
Mitchell
Gompers
Labor
Civic Federation
Republic
Ralph M. Eassey
Andrew Carnegie
John Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Mr Low
Mr. Carnegie
Carnegie
England
Massachusetts
Taft
Nobsesse
United States
Mr. Taft
William H. Taft
Frank B. Kellogg
Standard Oil Company
Andrew Carnesie
Miss Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Daniel J. Keefe
Longshoremen’s Union
Immigration
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Henry W. Taft
William J. Morgan
John A. Stewart
Otto M. Eidlitz
Angus Sinclair
George O'Neill
W. H. McCord
Theodore Marburg
Miss Marburg
Robert C. Ogden
George A. Hearn
Timothy L. Woodruff
F. A. Acland
Department of Labor of Canada
W. C. Brown
Chester B. Lord
W. D. Ryan
Nathan Bljur
John A. Moffitt
A. C
Edward E. Wise
John H. Finley
A. de Lima
Holt
Charles A. Conant
M. J. Reagan
John N. Bogart
W. Carroll Low
R. M. Easley
W. Everit Macy
Frederick D. Underwood
John D. Rockefeller
Marcellus Hartley Dodge
W. Morawetz
James Speyer
George W. Perkins
St. Clair McKelway
Herman Ridder
William R. Willcox
Lyman Abbott
I. N. Seligman
John Hays Hammond
Edwin Warfield
Maryland
Dean Alvord
Charles FE. Chapin
Edward Wauterbach
Henry Siegel
Maurice Ketten
Jeffro Ono
Japan
Ralph M. Easley
Judge Taft
Mr. Gompers
Mrs. Easley
Donna Easley
Peer
Mrs Eddy Foes Branch Church Plan in New York
The First Church of Christ Scientist on Central Park West abandoned a Riverside Drive project amid rival claims by Augusta Stetson. Church officials say Mrs Mary Baker Eddy opposes branching local churches while Stetson seeks leadership advantages, with comments from J W Dirtemore on church policy and Sentinel editorials.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
96Th Street
Central Park West
Riverside Drive
Eth Street
Augusta E. Stetson
Christian Science Church
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Stetson
First
West 36Th Street
Christian Science Leader
New York
Eddy
Boston
J. W. Dirtemore
Christian Science Committee
Tribune
Christian Science Sentinel
Dittemore
MrCiellan
Christian Science Organization
Christian Science Denomination
Stockholders Granted Vote Rights Across Corporations
Albany December 15 stockholders of any corporation may demand the right to vote at corporate meetings regardless of holding type. Justice Fitts delivered the ruling affecting thousands of New York state corporations with charters restricting voting power to common stock holders. The Royal Securities Company case against John Whalen, Secretary of State, led to Whalen’s filing refusal due to a charter provision excluding preferred stockholders from voting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Supreme Court
Fitts
Royal Securities Company
John
Papke and Kelly Fight to Twenty Five Round Draw
In Los Angeles on December 15 Billy Papke former lightweight champion and Hugo Kelly Italian lightweight from Chicago kept a brisk pace through twenty five rounds ending in a draw. Both boxers showed grit and tenacity in a closely contested match that entertained the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angeles
Billy Papke
Hugo Kelly
Chicago
Restaurant Opens at Hotel Ansonia with Hungarian Orchestra
The new grillroom at the Hotel Ansonia opened last night with Riga's Hungarian orchestra and a crowd of patrons enjoying the menu under the supervision of manager I V Van Arsdale.
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Riga
Ansonia
I V. van Arsdale
W. E. D. Stokes
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Foraker
J. S. Whipple
MLL
Children’s Bureau
James S. Coward
Greenwich St
N. Y
Neax Weenew Street
Civic Federation Talk
New York City
Mr. Moran
Coal Miners’ Union
Benedict J. Greenhut
Siegel Cooper Company
H. & Dennison
Dennison Manuacturing Company
South Framingham
Mass
Augustus P. Loring
Plymouth Cordage Company
Plymouth
A. E. Piorkowski
Frederick Krupp Company
Essen
Krupp
J. D. Beck
Wisconsin
Frank H. Tucker
Provident Loan Society
Nahum J. Bachelder
Filison A. Smyth
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Isaac N. Seligman
Executive Council
Nicholas Murray Butler
Industrial Economics Department
Melville K.ingalls
Public Ownership Commission
Franklin MaccVeagh
Immigration Department
D. N. Case
Woman's Department
Horace Brock
Lebanon
Penn
J. Borden Harriman
Joseph Medill McCormick
John K. Ottley
Atlanta
William H. Crocker
Burlingame
Cal
BF. Frank Me
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Clarence H. Mackay
V. Everit Macy
Henry B. F. Macfarland
Oscar S Straus
Ada C. Sweet
Berkeley
Marshall Field
Tart
Parker
Yale
Hadley
Amos Pearson
Ohio
B. R. T. Split
Arthur S. Tuttle
Queens
Joseph F. Keany
Long Island Railroad Company
Woody
City of
McGowan
Board of Aldermen
Borough of
Mrs. Eddy
Christian Scientist Church
Papke
Kelly
Park &Tilford
72Nd Street
Columbus Ave
B. Akman & CO
34Th Street
35Th Street
St. Avenue, New York
California
Omaha
Ogden
Milwaukee
St. Paul Ry
Kansas City
A. Blair
General Eastern
Broadway
Hotel Ansonia Grillroom
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