Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a footnote in your quotations from President Coolidge's address before the Pan-Amer- ican Congress, are these words, "A scarcely disguised rebuke to the suspicion-fomenting lie-circulating Hearst press." I am no friend of that slavering, slobbering, unintellectual and excuseless vulgarity known as the Hearst Press. But I hardly think President Coolidge's remarks were directed against the thirty-five odd" Hearst papers which have stood back of him as they have no President in more than a quarter of a century. The Hearst lies were directed against the Senators who oppose the Administration...
...attention from the press yesterday than is usually accorded the rare statements of the Chief Executive, because of the unwonted public criticism of naval expenditure. As was to be expected, the President denied any attempt at competitive construction, and said that the $750,000,000 he will ask from Congress for naval armament "considers our requirements alone." But admittedly these requirements are necessitated by the failure of the Geneva Arms Conference last summer, and the end required is that American warship building parallel the intensive program now being pursued in England. It is a supposition that parallel lines and navies...
That debaters in the U. S. Congress were trying to observe a truce on the Nicaraguan situation and other subjects ticklish to the Pan-American Congress...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...
Leaders & Spokesmen: 1) For Capital, Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, towering manufacturer of industrial chemicals, father of the present Conference, into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...