Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As honorary President of the American Red Cross, President Coolidge appointed members to its Central Committee-to continue as chairman, John Barton Payne; to represent the State Department, Undersecretary Mills; War, Surgeon-General Ireland; Navy, Captain Charles Edward Riggs; Justice, Solicitor-General Mitchell.
To Speaker Longworth of the House. President Coolidge transmitted news that the Treasury Department had underestimated its requirements for tax refunds in 1929 by 75 millions.
¶ Debated and passed a bill appropriating some 285 millions to run the Department of the Interior, including 221 millions for military pensions and a quarter-million (first of four instalments) to buy up privately-owned lands in Yosemite National Park.
The War Department announced last week that John Joseph Pershing, onetime (1917-19) Commander-in-Chief of the A. E. F. and since 1919 a General of the Armies of the U. S., shall henceforth be entitled to a salute of 19 guns on all formal occasions-two more than...
In his report, which was forwarded to the Department of Commerce, Inspector Hoover denied the prevailing story that the Vestris shipped water first through an illsealed coalport. He declared that it was much more likely that water first entered the vessel through a broken scupper or sanitary pipe. Not until...