Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A report signed by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce (written late in the summer after the appointment of Secretary Whiting, his successor) was published last week. Last commercial survey by the man who made the Commerce Department famous, it covered fiscaf 1928, which ended June 30, just after Mr. Hoover...
It happened last week. Representative Fred Albert Britten of Illinois, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House, took it upon himself to cable Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and suggest that a select committee from the House of Commons meet with the Britten committee, "preferably in Canada...
Etiquette demanded that Premier Baldwin consult the U. S. State Department and reply through it to Mr. Britten. Thoroughly annoyed by Mr. Britten, the State Department would have liked to discourage Premier Baldwin from doing more than acknowledge the receipt of the Britten cablegram. Premier Baldwin let it be known...
Not without its share in causing such official announcements, is diplomatic pressure by the U. S. in Canada. Last week the State Department announced that revision of the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty of 1924 was under negotiation-an announcement meaning that U. S. Minister William Phillips had finished...
In a massive 343-page report this conclusion is drawn from a multitude of sources by Commercial Counselor Joseph R. Cahill of the British Embassy at Paris. The report was issued in book form, last week, by the British Department of Overseas Trade and produced an international sensation. One of...