Word: first
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathizers regretted that the Pact had backfired at Mr. Stimson's first major attempt to operate it, applauded his courage in proceeding on the assumption that a positive character has been given to a perfectly negative document by the verbal resolution of President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald...
Such last week was the promotion of Patrick Jay Hurley from the sub-Cabinet to the Cabinet, to replace Iowa's James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier...
...there was more work to do and Speaker Longworth allowed the House no dalliance. Promptly taken up and considered was the first of the appropriation bills, $283,189,000 for the Interior Department...
...Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase of the cut. It looked as if it would take the Senate days...
...days prior Mr. Vare had hobbled into the Senate chamber to make his first and last defense. Excerpts...