Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington suggested that Congress authorized the establishment of an Engineer's School at West Point. For various reasons, the actual establishment did not take place until 1802. That is the birthday of the Military Academy...
...Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best for the final tribute to its greatest citizen. Paul John Kvale, eldest son, world war veteran and secretary to his father during his years in Congress, is the most likely candidate to succeed his father. . . . Alfred Kvale, second son, is famed as master of ceremonies and orchestra leader at the Oriental theatre in Chicago, and is an accomplished musician on several instruments. There are four other sons and one daughter, Dr. Ingolf Kvale of Willmar, Minn...
Those were some of the sums appropriated by Congress for the use of the Merchant Fleet Corp., a quasi-public body instituted in Wartime to build ships to carry soldiers, food and munitions overseas. When the War ceased, the corporation had to pay its bills, to settle with shipbuilders for cancelled contracts. Then its job was to operate the ships it had built until they could be disposed of to private interests...
Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...
Last week he reappeared. In the course of getting elected and being the President, Mr. Hoover had many times promised to consolidate the enforcement and prosecuting arms of the Federal Prohibition forces in one Department of the Government. Now, six months after Inauguration, nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury...