Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shipstead's Oath. So narrow seemed the margin of votes that Senate Clerk John C. Crockett was despatched to Baltimore, there to establish a precedent by swearing in a Senator for the first time outside the Senate Chamber. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana...
Western railroad executives then met in Washington to consider similar reductions which, if added to those by the eastern carriers, would move each bushel out of the glutted midwest to Atlantic seaports at about 9 cents per bushel cheaper than at present. The Shipping Board was approached to establish emergency freight rates on wheat to European ports as an additional means of increasing the outflow from...
...affairs and will render easy the duties of "landlording" required from the University. The proposed masters' houses to be built in connection with the projected Harvard system appear to have the same justification for University ownership, but it cannot be too clearly pointed out that this should not establish a precedent for a general University housing program. The difficulties of managing isolated units and keeping everybody happy are too great to warrant the University's participation in work of this sort unless under the utmost duress of necessity. Happily the Harvard Housing Trust, as has been pointed out, has largely...
When first introduced, the measure made felonious the sale of beverages containing "wood alcohol or other poisonous substance." Realizing that the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, would soon seek to establish that all alcohol was a "poisonous substance," the Wets quickly changed the bill to specify wood alcohol...
From a Brooklyn pier one day last week steamed away the S. S. Coamo, Porto Rico-bound. Aboard her were eleven men who composed a commission going to Santo Domingo to establish a budget system in that little republic.* Chief Budgetman was Charles Gates Dawes, first U. S. Budget Director (1921-22). To limit expenses, most of the Commissioners paid their own bills. Santo Domingo will be billed only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them...