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February 26, 1930

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Hughes Takes Leave of Bench While His Son Argues a Case

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Hughes takes leave of bench while son argues case

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HITS $1,302,782 FEE PAID BY EDISON CO. TO TAX CUT EXPERT; Minority Report on Utility Board Calls for an Inquiry on 12-Year Expenditures. CHARGES GROSS NEGLECT Asserts if Reductions Are Bona Fide City Taxpayers Are Losing Millions. CRITICIZES GAS MERGER Holds Prendergast Body Failed to Protect Consumers in Consolidated Deal.

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Minority rept charges Comm with gross nelect under W A Prendergast; cites N Y Edison Co's payment of sum to B F Witbeck for alleged purpose of reducing special franchise tax assessment

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NEW LINE-UP IS PUZZLING; Next Government Must Be Fusion of Centre Parties Including Radicals.FALL IS BY ONLY 15 VOTES Debate, Lacking Distinction,Called Battle of Numbers, Not of Argument.SOME TALK OF DISSOLUTIONBut One More Effort to Form Ministry Is Certain--FifthUpset in Two Years.

By P.j. Philip. Special Cable To the New York Times

His Govt defeated by 15 votes

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ASKS NEW CITY PARKS TO COST $20,000,000; Metropolitan Conference Urges Prompt Purchases, Chiefly in Queens and Richmond. BERRY GETS HONOR SCROLL Calls for a 'Normal' Pace in Public Projects and Predicts Agency to Coordinate Them.

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R Moses presents program of Met Conf on Parks at dinner of Pk Assn of N Y C; summary of recommendations; Pk Assn presents scroll of appreciation to C W Berry; speeches by C W Berry, A E Smith and others

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FEDERAL FUNDS HALT WHEAT PRICE SLUMP IN CHICAGO MARKET; March Futures Drop Below the Dollar Mark, but Close Higher Than Monday. STABILIZATION BODY BUYS Corporation Sponsored by Farm Board Is Said to Have Purchased 4,000,000 Bushels. HOOVER STUDIES SITUATION Legge, After Visit to White House, Issues Appeal to Grain Trade to Support Cooperatives.

By Special to The New York Times

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.--Spectacular bear raids, which had caused price declines of 5 to 8 cents a bushel in the wheat markets of the entire North American continent during the day, were offset in the last few minutes of trading this afternoon by ...

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1930Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (born 1863)^[†]

Mary Whiton Calkins was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists with the most merit, chosen by her peers. Calkins was refused a Ph.D. by Harvard University because of her gender.

Headlines from February 26, 1930

Hughes Takes Leave of Bench While His Son Argues a Case

NEW LINE-UP IS PUZZLING; Next Government Must Be Fusion of Centre Parties Including Radicals.FALL IS BY ONLY 15 VOTES Debate, Lacking Distinction,Called Battle of Numbers, Not of Argument.SOME TALK OF DISSOLUTIONBut One More Effort to Form Ministry Is Certain--FifthUpset in Two Years.

ASKS NEW CITY PARKS TO COST $20,000,000; Metropolitan Conference Urges Prompt Purchases, Chiefly in Queens and Richmond. BERRY GETS HONOR SCROLL Calls for a 'Normal' Pace in Public Projects and Predicts Agency to Coordinate Them.

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