Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, after conferring with Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Army Engineers, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis told the President and the public that the five boards were rushing through "a two years' job in six months," would have their data ready for Congress "before it meets...
...Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg last week received a letter from Senator William Edgar Borah, who had heard that the proposed new French borrowings in the U. S. would be 100 millions at 6%. Mr. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the U. S. Senate, recalled that the last U. S. offer to adjust the French debt was to accept fifty cents on the dollar and 1¼% interest. This offer France refused as oppressive, unjust. Said Mr. Borah: "The disparity between the two propositions seems worthy of consideration. Is the American taxpayer being swindled...
...William Edgar Borah, about to change horses, sought a home for Jester, his old mount, aged 14. The new horse was a bay hunter, aged 3, from Virginia. Cautioned about riding it, Senator Borah said: "Well, I haven't had any operation so I am at a better advantage than Will Rogers...
Friends bowed, more and less impressively, for Charles Evans Hughes, Nicholas Longworth,? Simeon D. Fess, Arthur Capper, William Edgar Borah, George William Norris, Herbert Spencer Hadley, James E. Watson, Hiram Warren Johnson, Frank Bartlette Willis and many another...
President George Edgar Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation last week published a preliminary statement of what the Foundation accomplished last year...