Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received Charles D. Hilles, onetime (1912-16) Republican National Committee Chairman, was advised to appoint Frederick C. Hicks, onetime (1915-23) Congressman from New York, to the post of Alien Property Custodian. Later, Mr. Hilles said that he himself would not accept a Cabinet post (TIME, Apr. 6). ¶The President addressed the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, of which Morgan Butler, son of Senator Butler of Massachuetts, is President. He defended the tariff: "The towering stature of our industrial tariff as we see it today is ... the complete vindication of this policy." He praised our free export policy...
...Premier would have the Senators elected (not appointed) for definite periods and with a definite retiring age.* There can be no doubt that such radical legislation, if carried, would not only impair the dignity of that august House (make it a forum of party politics rather than a custodian of national rights and liberties as at present), but would remove a pillar of the Constitution, as well as such hoary Senators as nonagenarian George Casimir Dessaulles, Dean of the Senate, and a most active...
...America, England and Holland are the great custodian nations, guarding the liberties of the world.* And how few are the nations guarding liberty, and how many are doubting liberty and democracy today. We in England look to you and to Holland and believe that we three should hold together...
Still holding the stage was the black satchel with its famous cargo of $100,000 in currency, the alleged loan of Mr. Doheny to ex-Secretary Fall, the alleged bribe by which Mr. Doheny obtained the lease from ex-Secretary Fall, custodian of the Naval Oil reserves...
...asserted that Mr. Daugherty had halted prosecution of the United Gas Improvement Co., charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, that he had illegally turned over to a Swiss company which was in reality a German subsidiary, $6,000,000 derived by the Alien Property Custodian from the sale of its securities...