Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The most significant result of the Cedar Rapids' conferences which lasted two days, was the appointment, to command the G. O. P.'s farm bureau at Chicago headquarters, of John J. Oglesby. Thereby the mention of Farmers' Friend Lowden, in the West Branch speech, was underscored. Mr...
Just before Secretary Kellogg departed, his Department made the long-expected announcement of Joshua Reuben Clark's appointment as Under Secretary of State, to succeed Robert Edwin Olds, who resigned two months ago. An international lawyer from Utah, 57, Mr. Clark's specialty has lately been Mexico. He...
*There have been a half-dozen separate engineering reports, pro and con, on Boulder Dam. Nominee Hoover apparently referred to the commission of five engineers, appointed last spring at the Senate's behest by the Secretary of the Interior, to restudy the project and report once more this Autumn...
"If the people commission me to do it, I shall with the aid of the Congress effect a real reorganization and consolidation of governmental activities upon a business basis and institute the real economy which comes from prudent expenditure. . . ."
Special home receiving sets are now so numerous (between two and three thousand) and this visual experimenting so important that last week O. H. Caldwell, of the Federal Radio Commission, urged his associates to encourage it by all possible regulations.