Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official entourage, said Secretary Everett Sanders, had best make ready their cutaway coats and pin-striped morning trousers. Silk toppers, patent leather shoes, spats and a stick would be the correct accessories. Nowhere, the inference was, is a greater premium set upon costume than at a Pan-American Congress and at this Congress, none must outplume the U. S. delegates, official or self-attached...
Justice McCoy was a representative from New Jersey districts to the Sixty Second and Sixty-Third Congress. In 1916 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington D.C. Justice Campbell was appointed President of the Board of Education of Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1920, later pecoming city attorney there. In 1925 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of South Dakota. He is coming East expressly to preside at the trial...
...himself is, of course, as American as his humour, aboriginal in fact by the addition of a touch of Cherokee blood to remove the race prejudice. "Rogers is a statesman experienced, courageous, and safe and sound," said representative Howard in Congress in advocating his election. Certainly there is material in that body for the constructive wit of an enlivened Presidential spokesman. The Nation has honored his trip to Mexico. Liberty should endorse his grammatical standards, and his friend of Mayor Thompson his non-deference to ceremonial. In fact the only amusing thing about this projected campaign is the fact that...
...declared that he resigned because of "a sense of regret at my inability to accomplish anything." The opinion was general that if so great a statesman cannot work with his recent colleagues there will have to be a general reshuffle of the Cabinet when the Nationalist Party Congress shortly convenes in Nanking...
...president of Mexico ever dared to try to realize these constitutional ideals until the rise of Señor Calles. His bold, perhaps rash, leadership spurred the Mexican Congress to enforce the Constitution of 1917 for the first time (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926), by passing laws which foreign interests in Mexico found "retroactively confiscatory" of their titles to Mexican lands and oil. Equally bold to the point of rashness has been Señor Calles' enforcement of the anti-religious clauses of the Constitution (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Indeed, for the past two years foreign investors...