Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They recalled that Bert E. Haney, Oregon Democrat, was first appointed a Shipping Board Commissioner by President Harding in June, 1923, and that President Coolidge reappointed him last June for another two years on a "recess appointment," which will lapse if not confirmed by the Senate, when it meets in December. They recalled that the U. S. Shipping Board had been created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department?the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration...
...Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied. If it comes out of the strictly military expenses, the Senate Military Affairs Committee is likely to object. Said Senator Wadsworth, Chairman (Republican of N. Y.) : "A further reduction would be suicide"; said Senator Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat : "There is such a thing as going too far." 2) In the case of the Shipping Board, repeated attempts have been made to reduce its operating expenses which were not long ago as high as $50,000,000 a year. Last year it got an appropriation...
Onetime (1913-19) Senator J. Hamilton Lewis (Illinois Democrat) sailed last week for Europe seeking new pastures. He said he was going to Geneva to represent before the League of Nations "a foreign power" which wishes to negotiate a loan for $100,000,000. Reporters asked what nations needed loans. Answer: "Poland, France, Belgium, Italy, Rumania and Greece...
...Kirksville, Mo., Senator James A. Reed (Missouri Democrat) spoke on the League of Nations, saying...
Died. John Temple Graves, 68, famed journalist, "Silver-Tongued Orator from Dixie," onetime (1907-19) editorial and feature writer for the Hearst newspapers, old-school Democrat, ardent protagonist of the South's causes; in Washington, D. C, of a complication of diseases...