Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Large of pate and paunch, small of eye and aim, Leader Watson perfectly typifies the old-style politician with whom the Hoover Administration is supposed to have little in common. But for that circumstance, Leader Watson could scarcely have asked for more favorable auspices when he set out in March...
When President Hoover picks the members of the now authorized Federal Farm Board, there will come into existence an agency for agriculture comparable in scope and authority with the Interstate Commerce. Commission for transportation, the Federal Reserve Board for finance.
While he was at sea, a movement was launched by the New York Telegram to accord Hero Young a hero's welcome. It was accurately pointed out that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal...
In Washington. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, asserted that both killings were justified and justifiable. He stoutly promised that the U. S. would stand behind Patrolman White, would transfer his murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted...
In 1879, having left his mark indelibly upon Cornell?, President White went to Germany as U. S. Minister. In a like capacity he went to Russia in 1892. There began a tradition. Cornell's second president, Charles Kendall Adams, administered from 1885 to 1892. Then came Jacob Gould Schurman. In...