Word: committeees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ How U. S. citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.
In the crowd of spectators at last week's Senate Lobby Committee hearings sat one inconspicuous man intently following every word of testimony, taking many a note. No professional newsgatherer, he was reporting the investigation for a special client. Inmmediately after each day's hearings a comprehensive report...
"President Hoover has instructed his Secretary, Mr. Newton, to establish a contact between the Committee [House Ways & Means] and ourselves. . . . We are a little doubtful about this step . . . but of course would do what President Hoover desires as he seems to be genuinely interested in our cause. . . .
"President Hoover sent for Mr. Shattuck and suggested that Shattuck cooperate with the Ways & Means Committee. . . .
The next day another Lakin letter, written to Mr. Shattuck himself, was turned up by the Committee.