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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration of the term of the President who appointed him; 2) whether Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary of the Treasury by reason of the law which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce, etc., or the law which forbids Internal Revenue officers engaging in the tobacco or liquor business. The first part of this resolution was perfunctorily absurd* and would not have been urged if only Secretary Davis had been involved. The second part was designed simply to embarrass Mr. Mellon, though its proponents...
...Senate and went crashing through to the floor. Dismayed, the workmen hurried to see which of the 48 stained-glass State seals in the Senate skylights had been broken. Awestruck, they found that the missle had missed all the State seals, missed also the figures of Peace, Industry, Valor, etc., and had singled out for destruction the great Horn of Plenty from which gifts of flowers and fruits pour down upon the U.S. people's most august representatives...
...these he should add a title or two of each of the worthwhile living authors: Shaw, Galsworthy, Robinson, Barrie, Moore, Cabell, etc. In selecting these, it is more important to have the particular title he himself prefers rather than the most popular book of an author. First editions of these authors are still obtainable at fairly moderate prices. Hardy, Conrad, and Anatol France, although no longer alive, surely belong with the above-mentioned group, and their work should be represented...
...Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made up of several small volumes illustrated in an uproariously grotesque manner...
...Rendered variously as bifsteak, bifstek, beefstek, befstick, etc. etc...