Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week put his first message to Congress in shape for the Public Printer. It is short, written mostly in the evenings of the last month. It recommends action on only two legislative subjects : Farm Relief, Tariff Revision...
...Kellogg denied that he would take a diplomatic post after four years as Secretary of State. A special act of Congress would be necessary to make General Pershing an Ambassador for the statutes now prohibiting a military man, active or retired, to enter the diplomatic service. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is held to militate against the chances which onetime Governor Fuller of Massachusetts has of going to Paris where the "radical" tide often runs strong...
Natural Art and Fine Art met, last week, in sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...
...second diplomatic coup was in 1926. With the franc falling to 3 cents, and no bottom in sight, anti-American sentiment reached a peak. Mr. Herrick took several hundred thousand dollars voted by Congress to purchase a new Embassy and bought francs, all the francs he could, "to show America's belief in the stability of France...
...Canton was in league with the rebels, a clique of military leaders with their base of operations in what are called the Wuhan cities (see below). The incautious Li had come to Nanking (guaranteed as to his life by Wu) in order to attend the third annual Nationalist Party Congress. The Congress adjourned last week after passing resolutions unqualifiedly condemning the Wuhan clique, directing that Li be kept in jail, and entrusting the fullest military authority to President Chiang. Since the wily president had unquestionably "packed" the congress, its actions surprised no one. In Canton yet another military clique, composed...