STEEL FIRMS FIGHT BARING OF RECORDS
New York Times. Nov 30, 1921
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.--Charges that the Federal Trade Commission, in its efforts to compel them to answer questionnaires pertaining to the iron steel, coke and by-products industries, had endeavored to lay bare trade secrets and processes and expose their...
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STEEL MEN BLAMED FOR BUYERS' STRIKE
New York Times. Dec 4, 1921
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.--Placing almost the entire blame for what is gen erally interpreted as a "buyers' strike," and the business depression resulting therefrom, upon the heads of the steel ...
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THE ROAD TO AMERICAN PROSPERITY
New York Times. Feb 19, 1922
The current prescriptions for the restoration of prosperity in the United States and in the world are curiously varied. They include high tariffs, low tariffs, the extension of credit to bankrupt nations and to commercial enterprises old or even dead and new but unproved, the ...
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ARBITRATION COURT GIVES OUT ITS RULES
New York Times. Jan 7, 1923
The rules for the conduct of the Court of Arbitration, formulated with the advice of the leading Judges in New York State, were made public yesterday by the Arbitration Society of America. They were drawn up by a committee consisting of Justice Charles L. Guy of the Supreme Court, former United States Senator James A. O'Gorman and Frank H. Sommer, Dean of the New York University Law School.
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METHODISTS DEMAND ARMY DRINK INQUIRY
New York Times. Mar 18, 1923
WASHINGTON, March 17. -- Under the heading "Turn On the Light," a demand that the Secretaries of War and Navy do everything possible to find out if officers named in a recently published Washington bootleggers' list actually bought liquors from this man was made by the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church today.
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NEEDIEST FUND GOES OVER $200,000 GOAL
New York Times. Dec 25, 1924
The fund for the Neediest Cases passed the $200,000 mark yesterday.
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FRENCH EMPLOYERS BASE WAGES ON FAMILY NEEDS
New York Times. Jan 4, 1925
There is going on in Europe a revolution of which little has been heard in America, a revolution which promises results of the highest value to national life. The custom of paying wages for work done regardless of the responsibilities and needs of the workers is giving way to the custom of taking account of family responsibilities and needs of each worker in apportioning his pay.
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YALE SURVEYS STUDENT HABITS
New York Times. Apr 25, 1926
Last Monday Yale University completed one of the most searching investigations of the undergraduate and his scholastic, athletic, recreational and other time-consuming activities ever undertaken by an American university. All students were required not only to answer a series of questions, but to tell the university authorities how long they spent at meals and in bed, the amounts of their allowances, earnings, the income of their families and why they wanted to go to college.
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BERNARD SHAW SHRINKS FROM HIS WIDE RENOWN
New York Times. May 2, 1926
BERNARD SHAW has taken out a monomark, a new device for the identification of human beings and their belongings.
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PERTINENT CASE IN COURT
New York Times. Aug 28, 1926
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 27. -- A case now pending in the United States Supreme Court, upon which a decision may come soon after that tribunal reconvenes in October; may have an important bearing in determining the extent of the powers of the Federal Trade Commission, in which Professor William Z. Ripley has aroused keen interest.
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FEDERAL TRADE BODY LOSES
New York Times. Sep 23, 1926
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. -- The Federal Trade Commission will be enjoined from inspecting the books and records of the Millers' National Federation of Chicago, a non-profit organization composed of the bulk of the big milling and baking concerns of this country.
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QUEEN GIVES $2,000 IN TIPS AT HOTEL
New York Times. Oct 26, 1926
Queen Marie of Rumania distributed between $1,500 and $2,000 in cash gratuities to 150 members of the staff of the Hotel Ambassador, Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, before she departed from Grand Central Station yesterday morning, the hotel management estimated last night.
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NEW YORK'S 100 NEEDIEST CASES
New York Times. Dec 5, 1926
THE fifteenth annual appeal for The Hundred Neediest Cases is made today. These are the hundred which, above all others in the city, are in want; these are the first call on charity.
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NEEDIEST FUND GETS $12,017 IN ONE DAY
New York Times. Dec 9, 1926
Contributions of $12,017,43 increased the total for the neediest cases yesterday to $35,339,50. Approximately $225,000 is still needed to reach last year's figure of $260,998,26, which provided for 345 of the most unfortunate and deserving families of New York City.
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FUND PUTS SUNSHINE INTO NEEDY HOMES
New York Times. Dec 12, 1926
Contributions of $8,398.75 increased the total for the neediest cases yesterday to $66,181,49. Hundreds of cases are still in need of help. The present total is only a little more than one-quarter of last year's figure of $260,998.26, which provided for 345 cases.
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FOUR $1,000 GIFTS AID CITY'S NEEDIEST
New York Times. Dec 19, 1926
Contributions of $14,663.20 increased the total for the Neediest Cases yesterday to $152,418.96.
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Sports of the Times
New York Times. Mar 1, 1927
THINGS are beginning to move fast. The heavyweight elimination tournament is showing some results, Babe Ruth and Colonel Ruppert are about to stage their famous financial debate, John McGraw is making threatening gestures toward Giant holdouts, Connie Mack has claimed the American League pennant, Walter Hagen finally defeated Gene Sarazen at match play and a round robin 18.2 billiard championship is about to start in the unsuspecting City of Washington, D.C.
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A MAN WHO COULD NOT BE POOR
New York Times. Mar 6, 1927
SOME are born rich, some achieve riches, and some have riches thrust upon them. As regards the last-named experience, there was recently reported the case of a man who had fortune after fortune thrust upon him against his will, and who was perhaps literally worried to death by the imposition of undesired and unwelcome wealth.
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DOHERTY DISAVOWS `ONE-MAN CONTROL'
New York Times. Mar 17, 1927
Henry L. Doherty, President of the Cities Service Company, whose serious illness on March 3 was used as a pretext by professional traders to bring about a sensational break in the common stock of that company, has addressed a letter to stockholders of his companies describing the condition of his health and announcing that he never expects again "to take an active part in the routine work" of the business.
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BOUT APPLICATIONS OPENED IN CHICAGO
New York Times. Aug 9, 1927
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. -- Applications for seats for the Tunney-Dempsey fight at Soldier Field on Sept. 22 were opened today at headquarters in the Congress Hotel and the amount of money involved ran into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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STOLEN DRESS IS CLUE IN $20,000 GEM THEFT
New York Times. Sep 23, 1927
A dress stolen from the apartment of Mrs. William Earl Dodge in the Park Lane Hotel four months ago was the clue, the police said yesterday, by which they traced stolen jewels worth $20,000 to the furnished room of Mrs. Nettie Murat Wilson, a maid at the hotel, who was held in $25,000 bail for the Grand Jury on a grand larceny charge.
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HENRY FORD TESTING HIS FIRST NEW CAR
New York Times. Nov 2, 1927
DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 1. -- One new Ford model, a two-door sedan, has been run off the assembly line at the Fordson plant.
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SEWER WORK BLAME PUT UP TO CONNOLLY
New York Times. Dec 15, 1927
Commissioner of Accounts James A. Higgins, in the first of his public hearings yesterday afternoon on charges of waste and graft in the $16,000,000 Jamaica sewer system, fixed directly upon Borough President Maurice E. Connolly responsibility for the conduct of sewer and highway construction in Queens in the last thirteen years.
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SIX GIVE $500 EACH TO AID THE NEEDIEST
New York Times. Dec 18, 1927
Contributions of $14,341.98 increased the total for the Hundred Neediest Cases yesterday to $92,816.44. This is $45,000 below the figure of $137,755.76 reported on Dec. 18 of last year. It is $188,000 less than the grand total of $280,302.28, which was raised a year ago.
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ON CHRISTMAS, REMEMBER THESE NEEDIEST
New York Times. Dec 25, 1927
THIS Christmas Day finds many a family happier because it has received help or given it through the fund for the Hundred Neediest Cases. For those who have been helped, the aid has meant the difference between despair and hope -- in some instances, between life and death.
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