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Senator George William Norris, who, more than anyone else, may be called leader of insurgent Republicans, has grown stoical during his 13 years of high office. Inirritable Mr. Norris philosophically decided at the close of the last Congress that the details involved with the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee were irritating and asked to be relieved of that responsibility, though he would continue as a member. In all probability he will be succeeded by Senator McNary, author of the wrecked and wrecking farm relief bill...
...Both the collection and the expenditure of the Budget should be delegated by the Student Council to a small and compact committee which it should appoint. It seems tenable that the Treas- urer of the Student Council should automatically assume the chairmanship of this committee and that he should be chosen with this office and its duties in view Three other members should be appointed and it is strongly to be recommended that the respective treasurers of the three upper classes should be represented, either as active or as ex-officio members of this committee. This body should...
...irrigation and other engineering problems. President Taft (his very good friend) offered him the post of Minister to China (which he refused). He became interested in irrigation, electric power, electric railway developments on a large scale and on several continents. His most recent post of note was the chairmanship of the U.S. Coal Commission. He is still going on, although no longer fighting revolutions...
...shock of white hair, more than 27 years' service in Congress* and the chairmanship of the Committee on Agriculture of the House make Gilbert Nelson Haugen a grand old man. Last week he had cause to celebrate. In the first place he had his birthday and entered upon his 68th year, and in the second place farm relief legislation began to pop to the fore, and farm relief is his business...
...retired to the Pullman board chairmanship and has since avoided the public eye. From his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big brick mansion in Washington, he issues into the limelight only on very pressing occasions, such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding on May 30, 1922, or the hanging of his mother's portrait in the White House a fortnight ago, (TIME, Mar. 1, THE PRESIDENCY...