Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Evans Hughes had made the question harder by declining to keynote. In him the committee would have rejoiced. He had renounced candidacy. Toward all the candidates he had seemed equally impartial. He would have ennobled the occasion. But Mr. Hughes offered his work at the Pan-American Congress as his excuse for eschewing active service for a time...
After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat...
Having added up March tax payments, scrutinized Congress' appropriations to date, and talked the matter over with President Coolidge, Secretary Mellon last week went before the Senate Finance Committee to announce what he thought should be done with the Tax Bill. The Bill which the Committee had received before Christmas from the House provided a tax reduction of $289,000,000 or 64 millions more than Secretary Mellon recommended last autumn...
Secretary Mellon's new points were two: 1) $201,115,000 was the maximum reduction he now could recommend; 2) $182,000,000 would be the maximum reduction if Congress should appropriate $30,000,000 for flood-relief*-an item not yet budgeted. His points made, Secretary Mellon departed for Bermuda, taking his son Paul Mellon and five of Paul's undergraduate Yale classmates...
...always thought he was a-." On their lips they checked the word "loafer" sometimes applied to Henry Summers, who in St. Louis was often seen dallying in an alley. But success in an alley deserved no opprobrium. Henry Summers had won the singles championship of the American Bowling Congress...