Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the Senate resolution against a third Presidential term (see THE CONGRESS), President Coolidge volunteered no comment. But, as every one knows, so soon as a subject of pressure is corked in one place, it is likely to leak out in another. Last week, anxious to guess what President Coolidge was thinking about the 1928 election, people passed around a remark, attributed to Son John Coolidge. Asked what he was going to do the coming summer, John Coolidge was said to have let slip: "Go to Europe, I guess, unless Father runs again...
...Passed, 68 to 1, a resolution requiring the Interstate Commerce Commission to report fully to Congress in April on all its rate decisions of the past five years, including the authority cited for each decision; sent it to the House for concurrence...
...Navy." When Secretary Wilbur submitted the "Big Navy" bill to Congress, the boom of billions echoed far and wide. At home and abroad the U. S. has been hotly accused of seeking revenge for the failure of last year's Geneva Conference, at which British and U. S. ideas on cruiser construction became deadlocked...
Reticent Chief. No one tried harder to put the "Big Navy" plan before the country in a peaceful light than the man who had to explain it to Congress, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Chief of Operations. To be on the safe side, he stuck as close as possible, almost word for word, to the statement of his predecessor, Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, whose estimates of the year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when...
...Congress Cigar Co. (La Palina)- $3,184,785. Previous year...