Word: committeees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces...
"No band of pirates ever looted a victim better than these distinguished gentlemen in the secrecy of their sub-committee chambers robbed the American people. . . .
In Washington, D.C., on the following day a Senate committee summoned four U. S. shipbuilders to discover whether they had not been conducting propaganda to make the government build more ships than it wished to.
Affairs in Washington came to a head when the Senate, on resolution of Senator Borah, directed its Naval Affairs Committee to spend $10.000 investigating the activities of William B. Shearer at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1927 (TIME, Sept. 16). The Naval Committee pondered a little and then appointed a...
Senator King of Utah, formerly on the Naval Affairs Committee and much in touch with Shearer said: "He was plausible. He told me he had once been in the Navy and never had lost his interest in it. He said he had fine connections with certain Naval officers and could...