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Shortly after Mr. Baker was made Secretary of War, the President decided to send an expedition into Mexico to operate against Villa who had raided Columbus, N. Mex. This was one of the first serious problems Mr. Baker had to meet. He called a conference in his office in which I took part. Upon the suggestion of General Bliss, who was present, General Pershing was selected as commander of the Punitive Expedition. In making this suggestion General Bliss pointed out briefly how Pershing was the logical man as he was on the ground, knew the situation and was thoroughly competent...
...Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either in higher postage rates...
...Hampshire, onetime chairman, now most potent member of the Post Office & Post Roads Committee of the Senate, doubted if Congress would approve any postal rate increase now. Said he, who used to be a publisher himself (Concord Evening Monitor): "I do not see how we can increase the first-class rates, since we made the mistake of reducing them after the War." The Senator objected to the fact that religious, fraternal and scientific periodicals-some 6,000 of them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial publications. Naming names, he declared: "There...
Before vacationing Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams hung a matter requiring the wisdom of Solomon. The time for awarding the Navy's annual pennant to the battleship most efficient in engineering, gunnery and communication was drawing near. Two battleships, New Mexico and Maryland had tied for first place in the complex system of scoring. Never before had a Secretary of the Navy to meet such an unprecedented crisis...
...roam the unguarded field where it was achieved. After his victory at New Orleans, "Old Hickory" Jackson returned to Tennessee, where in a cedar grove a dozen miles from Nashville he built for his misunderstood Rachel the Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion was the political centre of the land. Later it served its owner as a refuge from political storms. "Old Hickory" and his Rachel lie buried nearby under a huge magnolia. In 1856 his adopted son sold...