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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, who last fornight had somewhat curtly replied to a request that he appoint a committee of investigation with the statement that the matter was his responsibility to be investigated as he saw fit, last week, suddenly, surprisingly, did appoint exactly the kind of committee which he had been asked to name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Committee | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Resolutions to appoint the Anti-Saloon League as an official agency of the Baptist Church and to appropriate $10,000 for Prohibition enforcement, were lost by wide margins. Other resolutions approved the League's work, flayed the U. S. Senate committee which last summer publicly investigated the League's books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptists | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...proposed Permanent conciliation Commission is to be composed of five members. Each contracting party shall nominate a commissioner chosen from its respective nationals, and shall appoint, by common agreement, the other three commissioners from among the nationals of three other powers. The two parties shall appoint the president of the commission from among the members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKES NEW TREATY FOR ARBITRATION | 6/9/1927 | See Source »

...York Evening Graphic (Bernarr Macfadden's sheetlet) went so far as to suggest that President Coolidge appoint Captain Lindbergh ambassador-at-large to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Dewey, Lindbergh | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...first it was the Queen's Plate, for, in 1859, Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted "50 golden guineas ... to be run for at Toronto or such other place in Upper Canada as Her Majesty may appoint." Because the tradition founded then is unbroken, Summer came to Canada last week after the running of the King's Plate before the largest race-crowd to assemble at Woodbine Park, Toronto, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Guineas | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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