Word: batched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a proud tan and a clear head, the President arose early on his first morning back at the White House. He read a large batch of mail, signed documents, received callers. Among them were: Cabinet members Hoover, Kellogg, Sargent, Wilbur; Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who discussed relief plans for Florida; Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio...
...among other events William McKinley was nominated Republican presidential color-bearer. Clippings described the convention. One batch of these clippings was presented to a gawky stripling with the inscription: "To Master Willie Hays, with the hope that some day he may take a citizen's interest in politics." Possibly Schoolboy Hays wrote a thesis on the "Negro Problem...
...their search for characteristic poses, newspaper cartoonists last week might have pictured the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee with a budget book in his left hand, a batch of appropriation bills in his right, and his legs wrapped around an adding machine. Congress had left him to his mid-July pastime of reporting analytically on a fat $4,409,377,454.15, which is to nourish the Federal Government for the fiscal year...
...Governor inclosed a New York fishing license. ¶ After approving a batch of 63 bills in the seclusion of his White House office, the President donned formal dress, climbed into his car, rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue, and entered the historic room at the Senate end of the Capitol. There lay another neat stack of 90 bills which were to be considered in the next hour before Congress adjourned. He showed visible displeasure at the practice which has grown up of having the Chief Executive at the Capitol to approve bills without pondering their wisdom. Nevertheless, he set to work with...
...Elbert Henry Gary, chairman of the Board, has placidly withheld. Men had tried to tease the Judge into resigning at the April stockholders meeting. They had urged that he was an old man turned 80, had been with U. S. Steel since its inception in 1901, had made a batch of steel highbinders work together and actually practice his ethics in business. U. S. Steel was the sublimation of Judge Gary. He was the personification of U. S. Steel. What further did he want? He ought to cease his labors-and incidentally let the melon...