Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must appoint a fifth before the next prison conference...
"The scoundrels, blacklegs and professional pickpockets, treasury raiders, till tappers, exploiters of women, card sharpers, commission killers, per diem gun men, contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and...
Died. Brig. Gen. Charles Lewis Potter, 64, onetime (1920-28) president of the Mississippi River Commission, immediately recalled to active service after his retirement last January to supervise Congressional flood control legislation; following an intestinal operation; in St. Louis.
This conclusion, if correct, constituted one of the week's large pieces of news. Nominee Hoover is the heir of the Coolidge Administration. The Coolidge attitude on Boulder Dam has never been positively known. Toward the so-called Power Trust, President Coolidge has not, however, been cold. He pocket...
Died. Brigadier General Charles Lewis Potter, 64, Army engineer, president of the Mississippi River Commission, two months after his Army retirement; after a gall-bladder operation; at St. Louis.