Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking daily fatter and persistently genial, President-Elect Hoover last week visited Uruguay and Brazil. The night before the-night-before-Christmas he sailed on the U. S. S. Utah from Rio de Janeiro for home...
...Debated and passed a $111,889,000 supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. The total appropriation was some $100,000 over Budget Bureau recommendations. President-Elect Hoover's oldtime Department of Commerce benefited most. The measure went to the Senate...
...Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation in South America," he said, "is getting much more important, as you all know, in connection with the trip of the President-Elect and also, more particularly, in connection with the drive of Europeans for those markets...
...Congressmen had heard often of Europe's competition in South America. But they cocked their ears at mention of the President-Elect and at "capitalize the present opportunity...
...corporation in days when such corporations were objects of more awe and alarm than they are today, U. S. Steel remains as it has been for many years, the popular embodiment of U. S. capital, U. S. industry. When U. S. Steel directors meet, there is news; when they elect directors, it is an event. Thus the U. S. public was last week more interested in the election of two new U. S. Steel directors than in British steel mergers, however far-reaching...