Four Free Newspapers Alleged Censored By Union
E J McCone Buffalo Commercial general manager testified before the Senate newsprint committee that only four papers published last October portions of Elbert Gary testimony to the steel inquiry. He said the Buffalo News altered the story after pressure from the union shop chapel but did not name the newspapers.
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Washington
International Typographical Union
Senate
E. J. McCone
Buffalo Commercial
McCone
Elbert Gary
Senate Steel
Buffalo News
Banks Demand Congress Action on Federal Reserve Board
Delegates from about 30 states gathered for a national and state bankers protective association meeting to oppose the universal par clearance ruling. They plan to press resolutions in Congress calling for an investigation of the Federal Reserve Board and may urge a deposit boycott by state banks against city banks using reserve clearing facilities.
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Washington
State Bankers Protective Association
Federal Reserve Board
New Orleans
Country Bankers’ Association of Georgia
Congress
Federal Reserve Clearing House
Supreme Court Recesses Without Deciding Prohibition Amendment
Washington The supreme court recessed until May 17 without ruling on the constitutionality of the prohibition amendment or the enforcement act.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Anti-Saloon League Backs Seven Presidential Candidates
The Anti-Saloon League of America under general superintendent Dr. B. Baker endorsed seven candidates: Hoover, Wood, Lowden, McAdoo, Hughes, Poindexter, and Bryan, in Westerville, Ohio.
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Westerville
Ohio
Highest Cost of Living Rises in Detroit and Norfolk
Department of Labor figures for December 1919 versus December 1914 rank Detroit highest with an 108 percent increase in cost of living, followed by Norfolk, Virginia, at 107 percent. Other cities in the fourteen city survey are listed in order of rising costs.
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Detroit
Norfolk
Washington
Department of Labor
Senate approves new 50 cent Pilgrim commemorative coin design
The senate authorized coinage of a fifty cent piece to mark the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing and the 100th anniversaries of Maine and Alabama’s admission to the union. House passage has followed the senate action.
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Senate
Washington
Maine
House
Moon eclipse observed from hydro airplane high above
Lieut J H Tilton and W H Cushing of the Rockaway Beach naval air station viewed a lunar eclipse from a hydro airplane at nearly three and a half miles altitude. They stayed aloft one and a half hours on navy department directive.
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New York
J. H. Tilton
W. H. Cushing
Rockaway Beach Naval Air Station
Navy Department
Court Refuses Government Rehearing in Steel Case
The Supreme Court denies the government's request for a rehearing of the anti trust suit against United States Steel Corporation. The government's motion argued the March 1 decision conflicted with an April 26 order dissolving the Reading Company and some of its affiliates.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
Reading Company
Supreme Court Bolsters Lever Act In Profiteering Case
In Buffalo New York United States Judge John R Hazel upholds the Lever Act deeming its food control provisions constitutional in alleged profiteering cases.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States
John R. Hazel
Atlantic Fleet Returns Home From Cuban Drills
The New York anchored fleet returns to the Hudson after three months of drills and maneuvers in Cuban waters led by the Pennsylvania flagship with the secretary of the navy’s flag at the main masthead.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Secretary of the Navy
Hudson River
Cuban
Senator Poindexter to Withdraw From Oregon Primary
United States Senator Poindexter of Washington will withdraw his name from the Oregon Republican presidential primary ballot. The move comes as he relinquishes his bid for the party nomination.
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Poindexter
Salem
Oregon
United States
Washington
Organized labor backs revolution in Mexico reports
Reports reach military headquarters say labor unions across Mexico have joined the revolutionists. Some 6,500 armed workers are said to have joined the movement.
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Mexico
Agua Prieta
Sonora
Higher Price for Daily Papers Expected Soon
Frank A. Munsey predicts five and ten cent daily newspapers as he testifies before a Senate committee. He urges drastic cuts in newsprint use and calls for government regulation of paper and wood pulp sources.
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Frank Munsey
Washington
Frank A. Munsey
New York
Senate
Cotton Millers of Massachusetts to Close Millis in Self Defense
New Bedford Massachusetts text notes that the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers association refused a conference with the textile council to avert a strike of 20000 operatives across 18 mills. Mills may shut due to nonreporting workers. Washington reports nine bills in conference including five appropriation measures and a water power development measure awaits action. Newark court orders a recount of presidential primary votes for Johnson and Wood to begin May 10 in five counties.
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Cotton Millers of
Massachusetts
Millis
New Bedford
Mass
New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Textile Council
Washington
Senate
House
Newark
N. J
William S. Gummere
The
Supreme Court
Senator Johnson
General Wood
Essex
Morris
Camden
Gloucester
Cape May
Johnson
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Jewelry Store
Review
W. F. Clegg Cigar CO
Greensboro, N. C
Hes
High Penne
South
North State Telephone CO
Mattgon Drug Company
Carter
Gil
Gary
Senate Committee
Association OF National and State Bankers
California
Ent
Anti-Saloon League
Pershing
Panama
Tabodga Island
Panama Canal
General Pershing
Union Club
Constantinople
Baku
Caspian Sea
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Vladikakaz
Atlantic
Cuba
Daisyefly
Anyy Sann
WLM
DR. Tutt
Thy
Ose
Ayaa
First Natl. Bank
Richmond
Woodson Craig Cession Merchants
Cuncura
Potash
Kainit
Soil and Crop Service Potash Syndicate
H. A. Huston
Broadway
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