Review of Current Events Highlights From Washington and Beyond
President Coolidge urges economy and tax cuts while delaying major fiscal changes. He calls for Navy strength within the Washington limits and disputes League of Nations protocol. Debates over Muscle Shoals, railroad consolidation, and tax policy dominate as war debts and disarmament plans loom. International notes cover Mexico’s new president, Baltic anti-communist moves, and shifts in Russia and China amid unrest.
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Coolidge
Congress
Agricultural Commission
League of Nations
Japan
United States
League
Hawaii
America
World Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Repubican
Democratic
Representative Green
Iowa
Ways and
Green
Senate
House
Wilson
Costs of Postal Service Show Major Loss in 1923
Ostmaster General New told the Senate a detailed postal cost analysis under a resolution on salaries. It shows a net loss near 40 million dollars for 1923, with over half from second class mail such as newspapers and magazines. Only first class mail and postal savings turned a profit. Coolidges visit Chicago lasts about 12 hours as they toured stock yards and attended events at the International Live Stock exposition, with brief remarks at a luncheon and dinner.
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Ostmaster General New
Senate
Coolidge
Mrs. Coolidge
Chicago
Government bonds offer 4 percent long term issue details
Secretary Mellon announces 20 to 30 year 4 per cent bonds with $200,000,000 offered and extra allotment possible from existing Liberty bonds and notes. Bonds are tax exempt for state local taxes and most federal taxes but $5,000 exempt from surtaxes. estate taxes apply. Also mentions Kansas City Journal Post indictments quashed as First Amendment rights cited.
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Ecretary
Treasury
Mellon
Kansas City
Reeves
Kansas City Journal-Post
Soviet Envoy Krassin Welcomed by Paris Communists
EONID KRASSIN arrived in Paris as the first ambassador of Soviet Russia to France and was greeted by about 6 000 communists with red flags and fiery speeches as the Internationale rang out. In Paris radicals marked the transfer of Jean Jaures ashes to the Pantheon during another demonstration. The Federal Council of Churches met in Atlanta with Dr. Robert E. Speer presiding, noting a growing move for church cooperation and joint action.
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Eonid Krassin
Russia
France
Paris
Jean Jaures
Pantheon
Federal Council of Churches
Atlanta
Robert E. Speer
New York
Federal Council
Esperanto Gains Ground in Europe and Americas
Last week bordered radio tests showed dispersal ranges as listeners heard voices from England Germany and Italy. Esperanto a universal auxiliary language created by Lazarus Zamenhof spreads through radio clubs schools and conventions with official endorsements from the League of Nations and American Radio Relay League.
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Europe
England
Germany
Italy
Lazarus “Zamenhof
Zamenhof
France
Japan
Tolstoi
Vienna
League of Nations
American Radio Relay League
Berlin
Winnipeg
Canada
Austria
Bulgaria
Madagascar
Mars
Not the first to try the new or the last to discard the old
The fragment urges caution about novelty and tradition, implying a balance between trying new ideas and letting old ones go. It expresses a wary stance toward change, emphasizing that progress will have both pioneers and successors.
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Jeti
Money to loan on farm land at eight percent
A notice seeks borrowers for two thousand or twenty five hundred dollars on good farm land on the north table. W P Miles invites interested parties to call.
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W. P. Miles
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President Coolidge
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Panama Canal
Hawaiiian Islands
Lutarco Calles
Mexico
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mexico City
Sthonia
Reval
Laidoner
Latvia
Poland
Esthenia
Dremier Ziwar Pasha
Great Britain
Sirdar Stack
Lord Allenby
Sudan
Land of the Nile
Cairo
EO Koretz
Nova Scotia
OVIET
Council of People’s Commissars
Peking
Chang
Feng
Wu Pei-fu
Hankow-Peking
Yellow River
China
A. Corbett
Estas Provata
Nek Tamenta Jasta la Malinova For
Bosch
Ex. W. Service
W. J. Kretz
Sidney Hart-Parr Co
Sidney, Nebraska
Anteed
Fritz Brauer
Sidney
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