Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator! Come back here! The show isn't over. I want you to shake hands with Senator Smoot and say loudly 'That's fine...
With President Hoover he went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem...
Commission. The Tariff Commission was changed back into a bi-partisan organization responsible to Congress, contrary to President Hoover's wishes...
...incarcerated. In a calm, plaintive voice he said: "I am 49 years old. I can never regain these days I am losing. I harbor no ill will toward anyone and my only desire is to work and live at peace with all the world." Justice Peters ordered him sent back to the asylum...
Five thousand advertising potentates from 20 countries left Berlin last week after four days of concentrated speech-applauding, back-patting, beer-quaffing, sightseeing. Contours of the International Advertising Convention included...