Word: according
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet matters. In the first place Andrew Mellon was conceded probable re-appointment to the position of Treasury Secretary. A two-hour conference between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hoover served as the basis for the story that the Treasury Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire to appoint Col. William J. Donovan, present Assistant Attorney General, to the Attorney General's Cabinet position. Mr. Donovan is a Catholic, is also no ardent prohibitionist, consequently Klan and other anti-Catholic influences are against...
...representatives of France, he said, must have a free hand. They would cling tenaciously to the principle that Germany must pay enough to satisfy French reparations claims and cover the debt of France to Britain and the U. S. Within that rigid framework the Chamber ought to accord the Government every liberty in negotiation...
...Harkness has largely set aside by his generous promise of more funds when they are needed. The process of selection will be a difficult one, and will involve a certain number of mistakes. There is the danger on the one hand of uncongeniality; on the other of too great accord and insufficiently diversified interests. To be successful, the Houses must function as something considerably more than mere dormitories or common eating halls...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 of Albany, N. Y., was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1929 at a meeting on Monday night of the Directors of the Alumni Association. He was notified of his election by telephone yesterday and has accepted. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
First, to convert Rumania into a democracy of authentic, Anglo-Saxon stamp, retaining constitutional monarchy. Second, to accord to Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate...