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Word: committeees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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What made the conference unusual was that it apparently violated an ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unusual, Proper | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

¶ Debated a resolution creating a joint committee to study Prohibition administration.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

A rich sheep rancher, Republican Senator Warren was dubbed "the greatest shepherd since Abraham" because of his interest in a high wool tariff. His friends have now twisted this sarcastic epithet around to refer, in complimentary manner, to his legislative skill in herding bills through to passage. For the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patriarch | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Elected. Artemus L. Gates, 33, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to be president of New York Trust Co. Harvey Dow Gibson, retiring president, was elected executive committee chairman.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Two aspects of what it costs to be sick in the country and in a great city appeared in surveys published last week. The city medical cost survey was of New York City's 6,000,000 people, made by the research bureau of the local Welfare Council. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country & City Cost | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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