Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cotton, a Harvard man and potent Manhattan lawyer, worked with Herbert Hoover in the U. S. Food Administration. Afterwards he became a law partner of William Gibbs McAdoo (1919-21) when the firm of McAdoo, Cotton & Franklin represented the Mexican oil interests of Edward Laurence Doheny. Because of Doheny's subsequent connection with the Oil Scandals, Senate Progressives sought to capitalize Mr. Cotton's service to his discredit...
...experiment came early in a session one day last week. Barely a dozen Senators were on the floor when the Cotton nomination was publicly confirmed without roll-call or debate. Four hours later Montana's Senator Wheeler rushed upon the floor, made loud complaint, had the Cotton confirmation revoked, the nomination reconsidered. Sly Republican Leader Watson's comment: "This is the first fruit of open executive sessions...
...days later Mr. Cotton was reconfirmed to his post which ranks second only to that of Statesman Stimson himself?but this time, in the more usual closed executive session...
...Confirmed the nominations of John Lord O'Brian as first assistant to the Attorney General and Joseph Potter Cotton as Undersecretary of State...
...youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; average age, 56. Of the new Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated...