Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About Statesman Stimson pressed newsgatherers. Said he with startling informal ity: "I absolutely refuse to shoot off my mouth about my new job until I see my new chief." But he was by no means silent, for he had plenty to say about the Philippines. The proposition to impose duties upon sugar and other products from the Islands to the U. S. vexed him greatly...
...were taken to organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...
Hopeful of averting such underwater disasters as the S-51 and 54, the Navy Department last week placed orders for the manufacture of 6,300 of the new, successfully tested "lungs" developed jointly by Lieut. C. B. Momsen, Chief Gunner C. L. Tibbals and Frank Hobson, civilian engineer, to help sailors escape from sunken submarines (TIME, Feb. 18). Each of the 2,600 officers and men on submarine duty will be furnished with two or more of the devices...
...Chief Justice Charles W. Mason presided over the Johnston trial, administered the oath to the new Governor, then hurried away to prepare his own defense on impeachment charges against himself and two other justices of the State Supreme Court...
Bellhops. Scandalous to logically and literally minded Latins was the jocular organization, last week, by associates and assistants of the U.S. delegation, of what they proceeded to call "The Bellhops' Club." With untempered levity the self-styled "Hops" elected as their "Chief Bellhop" the famed Yankee lawyer who as Commissioner General of the League of Nations for Hungary stabilized the finances of that nation−Jeremiah Smith Jr. By-laws provide for the "exclusion of any Bellhop caught working," and the purpose of the organization seemed to be frequent luncheons at the Hotel George V de luxe seat...