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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has already suggested that a means be devised of rebating* all Treasury surplusses (over $25,000,000) to tax payers in order to keep the Government poor and reduce the tendency to extravagance by either the Executive or Legislative Branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Old | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...American Branch of the Inter- national Law Association considered the Experts' reparations plan, passed resolutions which were forwarded to Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. unofficial representative at the present reparations conversations in Paris. Kernel of these resolutions was the advocacy of immediate payment of U. S. claims against Germany (as soon as deter- mined by the commission at Washington) by the issuance of U. S. bonds based on long-term German obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Resolutions | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...Diplomatic service now is conducted as nearly on the merit system as any human organization can be. Young men who enter can be reasonably sure that they will have the same opportunity to show their stuff that they would have in some business concern. The only branch in which the merit system is not exclusively employed is in the appointment of heads of mission. In this regard, the President still keeps his right to reward prominent men at home with ministerial or ambassadorial appointments abroad, but at the same time he has not disregarded the capable men who have risen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLK SEES DECLINE OF PARTY SPOILS SYSTEM | 11/15/1924 | See Source »

...Emeritus of the University, will preside at a symposium on "The Next War", which will be given in the New Lecture Hall on Tuesday evening, November 18, at 8 o'clock. This symposium, the first to be held this year at the University, has been arranged by the University branch of Gamma Alpha, the national scientific society. "The Next War" will be discussed from three angles, the three speeches being as follows: "Science in the War", "Conscription on Thought in War", and "The Stacking of the Cards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAN BIG SYMPOSIUM ON "THE NEXT WAR" | 11/13/1924 | See Source »

...failed to attend the mass meeting yesterday. He seemed to share the popular delusion that loyalty to the University and loyalty to the Eleven are synonymous. It is a peculiar type of loyalty, which manifests itself only in regard to football, but does not include support of any other branch of activity, athletic or otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

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