Word: committeees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Finance Committee last week decided: 1) To abandon Senator Smoot's sliding sugar tariff because of its resemblance to price-fixing; 2) To triple the house-proposed duty on waste wool; 3) To reduce the duty on automobiles from 25% to 10%.
"The simple truth is that over my own protest I was urged by the Republican National Committee in two telegrams to make that speech. The week before it was delivered every word of it was carefully edited by James Francis Burke, a Catholic, and counsel of the committee. He did...
". . . When criticized I had to choose whether to disclose the telegrams and actually embarrass the Committee or keep still and take punishment. Good sportsmanship dictated the latter course. . . ."
For 33 years Mr. Burke has been associated with the G. O. P. Committee. The post of General Counsel was especially created for him. Throughout the campaign he sat just outside Candidate Hoover's door. President Hoover took him along to the White House where he serves as the...
Busy Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes of Colon last week called on the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal Council and the Rotary Club for one volunteer each. He wanted, he said, to form a "Committee of Three" to decide which of the young women employed in Colon cabarets are "artists...