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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since its completion newsmen and photographers were last week permitted to pass through the Marine guard, enter the Hoover camp on a professional tour of inspection. On a plateau 2,500 ft. up in the mountains, they found scenes of lyric wilderness. They heard waterfalls that lulled the President to sleep (his own description), inspected the huge living room with its 51-ton stone fireplace, marveled at the urban conveniences in such a rustic setting...
...President Hoover last week took steps to improve co-operation on public projects between states and the federal government. He picked his own California as the first beneficiary, prepared to appoint commissions to study its water control problems, to urge the need for a gigantic bridge over San Francisco harbor...
...first place the direct primary must be blamed. It is an outrageous form of government, a deviation from the representative form of government in which the U. S. was founded. The direct primary* was passed because of the influence of Theodore Roosevelt and Senators Borah and Johnson. Among its other results, it has put in the United States Senate the worst group of men we have ever had there in the history of our country...
...Liggett, new to politics, meant not the direct primary, a local nominating method, but the popular election of Senators, as provided in the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, approved by Congress May 13, 1912. Mr. Liggett's Massachusetts was the first State to ratify it (May 22, 1912). Its final ratification came...
...Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian...