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...Bundestag, he won posts on key committees???foreign affairs, defense, and all-German affairs. He became the most effective defender of Chancellor Adenauer's Western-oriented foreign policy in Bundestag debates. Adenauer hinted that he would some day bring him into the Cabinet, but that some day never came. Frustrated after nine years in Bonn, Kiesinger jumped at an invitation from his home state of Baden-Württemberg to take over as Minister-President (Governor...
...members of Congress tonight is to advance a national unity in the setting up of constructive forces now working in the Depression." Day before. President Hoover had telegraphed 32 Democratic and Republican Senators and Representatives?all the important men of either house, including members of the Banking & Currency Committees???to meet him at the White House at 9 o'clock Tuesday evening. The President urged-secrecy, offered to put a plane at anyone's disposal...
Through the years these men have come to know tubby, dynamic Viscount Burnham as an employer who labored no less conscientiously than they, and yet found both time and opportunity to chairman innumerable public welfare committees???for example, the King's Fund for Disabled Ex-Service...
Whatever recommendations are made by the two Committees???and they can do no more than recommend?their success in trying to disentangle the reparations problems can only be measured by the results which are obtained; and results are dependent upon Franco-Belgian acceptance of the recommendations, without which the entire work of the Commissions may have been useless...
...American Federation of Labor, holding its annual convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 8) proceeded to the business of grinding out resolutions. This is the main function of the convention. Literally scores of resolutions were proposed and referred to committees???95 in the first five days alone. Some of the more important resolutions proposed...
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