Government probes wartime profits and industry pay
Washington observers report the Senate munitions committee will push profit disclosures and new controls. Nye and Clark back legislation to curb private profiteering, with a 98 percent tax on wartime incomes over 100000 and government production mandates for fair compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
NYE
Gerald Pp. Nye
War Department
Bennett Champ Clark
Chirk
American Legion
Missouri
Diary notes and social roundups from New York Scene
New York diary entries recount informal talks with Columbia Dean Ackerman and Ewing Galloway, visits with Ruth Bryan Owen, and social scenes from the Colony and Fifth Avenue. Musings on writers Hergesheimer and Wells mix with entertainment gossip and a Bronx crime-site curiosity. A Massachusetts student regains a long-lost watch via mail, with medieval Italy’s painting fad touched on briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dean Ackerman
Columbia
Ewing Galloway
Ofth Street
Kathryn Carver
Fannie Hurst
Ruth Bryan Owen
E. D. Coblentzes
Clarence’ Blethens
Seattle
Howard Chandler Christys
William Curley
Dot
Deac Aylesworth
Colony
Tommy Millard
Senator Barbour Pushes Licensing of Munitions Makers
Sen Warren Barbour of New Jersey urged federal licensing of munitions manufacturers in a New York address, while opposing government ownership of factories. He said the committee found that unbridled private manufacture and distribution of war materials encourages heavy arming and jeopardizes the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Barbour
N. J
New York
Sen. Barbour
Trapped Mountain Lion Becomes Parlor Rug in Montana
In Great Falls Montana a mountain lion was lured by catnip, fish oil and anise oil into a trap set for nuisance animals. The animal was captured and prepared as a rug. Local residents report the unusual method and outcome.
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Great Falls
Mont
Mountain Lion
Louis Chevrolet
A. A.A
Florida
Sunoco Mercury
Sunoco
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du Pont Company of Delaware
Bernard Gimbles
Frank Swinnerton
Baruch
Miami
Broadway
Joseph Hergesheimer
Wuppermans
Frank
Ralph Morgan
Morgan Brothers
Wupperman
Ginger Dipornen
Reuben
Plaza Zone
Fifth Avenue
Bronx
Hauptmann
Joe Elwell
Bagatelles
Harry Richman
William C. Lengel
H. G. Wells
Paul Whiteman
Framingham
Mass
Esther O’brien
Framingham High School
O’brien
Saxonville Junior High School
Italy
A. Minnich & Sons
Wasserman’s
England
Scotland
Czechoslovakia
Stephen L. Stetson
Quality Clothes Shop
Broad Street
Capitol Theatre
McNaugsh
Syndicate, Inc
Catnip
Ohio Nursery
FE. River St
Ohio
Household Finance Co
R. R. Ritter
Elyria, Ohio
Gmsuures
Chevrolet
Mercury
H. H. Allen
A.A. A
American Automobile Ass'n
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