Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A 25-year-old interstate stalemate which blocked the river's development had been broken by Herbert Hoover, not as President but as Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Colorado River Commission. There he had brought the states into sufficient agreement to make Boulder Dam possible. All smiles, the...
...State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch with President Hoover. About the table were gathered officials from the State and Treasury Departments. Questions were asked and answered. The advisability of having a U. S. official join the International Bank of Settlements, set up under the Young Plan...
Continued the Senator: "President Hoover in his speech to the Associated Press minimized, if not actually extinguished, the importance of the major subject of Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never...
Senator Glass ridiculed the idea of passing the Jones Resolution for another joint Commission on Prohibition, declaring: "There is not a fact to be ascertained, not one, not now immediately available to the President and the department heads affected. It is an attempt by the executive . . . to shift to the...
Disarmament was the Dawes thesis. He wasted little time in coming to the point. After brief reference to the U. S. naval building program of $1,170,800.000 and mention of the Reparations Commission of 1924, he said: