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...Coolidge has repeatedly suggested setting up a federal board to arbitrate in coal emergencies, but- 6) "As emergency is a chronic state in coal," perhaps such a board had better regulate as well as arbitrate. 7) Perhaps the most advisable step of all would be for the operators to appoint an umpire or high commissioner, as in the cinema and baseball industries. Said Secretary Davis: "If ever an industry needed a Tsar, coal is that industry." 8) "The man selected would have to be one of ability, courage, decision and heart; a man of the type of Charles Evans Hughes...
...problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...
Last week John L. Duvall felt that something was going to happen to him, so he put his resignation in the mail. Mrs. Duvall then served as mayor?for 15 minutes?long enough to appoint a new City Comptroller and then resign herself. Her appointee was one Ira M. Holmes, lawyer...
...RESOLVED that the Presbytery appoint a committee of counsel to consist of two ministers and one ruling elder who is also a lawyer (said committee to be chosen so as to be easily accessible) and that Presbytery urge all its ministers when they are asked to remarry any divorced person concerning whose right to remarriage there appears to be the slightest question to bring all the papers and all relative information to this committee and to be guided by their judgment in acceding or refusing to perform the desired marriage...