Word: chief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington appointment was as Chief of F. E.-most important link in the chain of policy, the agent who boils down for President and Secretary of State the mass of reports from the field. Here Nelson Johnson was so useful that in 1927, at 40, he was made Assistant Secretary...
What to Do? Fortnight ago Nelson Johnson left Chungking for the Shanghai establishment. There he hastily conferred with Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet...
This week Chief Justice Hughes stood up, spoke through his thinning thicket of milk-white whiskers a decision in favor of the Government's view, said: "We cannot believe that Congress intended to create so great a breach in historic remedies and sanctions." There was no dissent,* and back went the case to Chicago, where the milk monopolists will now be tried...
Left untouched was the question at keenest issue now: whether labor unions as such may be prosecuted under the Sherman Act.† The Chief Justice said the question was not presented, despite the milkwagon driver defendants. Thus President William Green of the American Federation of Labor found no clue in the Supreme Court decision to the future of his building-trade unions-now widely indicted in the Justice Department's drive against trade restraints in the construction industry...
Among the spectators who applauded were six Justices of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Hughes warmly shook the hand of Librarian MacLeish, the hand of Britain's Ambassador. It had been a good day's work for Anglo-American relations. It had been a good day's work for shrewd Lord Lothian...