Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Amended the Senate's bill to prolong for one year the life of the Federal Radio Commission; passed it; sent it to conference, where it languished in controversy. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing an appropriation of $4,000,000 for reforestation; sent it to the Senate.
¶ Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000...
Not content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course...
Houston Thompson will be the guest of the club at dinner before an open meeting Monday evening, April 2. Mr. Thompson was a former member of the Federal Trade Commission, and will deal with problems in labor, and the methods used by the commission in handling them.
Yellow Fever. From Havana came Dr. Aristides Agramonte, member of the yellow fever commission appointed by the U. S. just after the Spanish American War. Graphically he described the adventures of the scientific pioneers who discovered the mosquito carrier* of yellow fever in 1900. Enthusiastically he lauded the labors of...