Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would go down in history as indeed a weak-kneed President who, within the first year of his office, should let slip from the office's authority so great a power as the one which was given the President in the Tariff Act of 1922, the power to raise or lower duties by 50% upon recommendation of the President-appointed Tariff Commission...
...Chance put one Hoover in the White House. The electorate put in another. Last week the second Hoover added a third Hoover to the household. President Hoover appointed Lieut.-Commander Gilbert C. Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, to be his Naval aid. The first Hoover, as everyone knows, is tall, greying Irwin ("Ike") Hoover, chief usher at the White House since the time of President McKinley. Hoovers Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are not related...
...session lasted only four minutes. It consisted only of a prayer and an adjourning gavel tap. It was, however, the first time in history a woman ever presided over the U. S. House of Representatives...
...Dean James Barr Ames '68 LL.B. '70, the competition is now entering its eighteenth year. The bequest provides for prizes of $300 and $200 respectively to go to the winners and runners-up of the series of arguments. Since but four clubs are eligible for the semi-finals, the first two years are occupied in selecting the best clubs of a large field by the process of elimination on the basis of point evaluation...
...great obstacles to be overcome, however, are not incident to the game itself at all. The first has to do with the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another. No one college is likely to be willing to withdraw the supervision of the coach unless its chief competitors follow the same practice. For example, some of Yale's opponents have been willing to adopt this policy but others have not. Only once therefore, so far as I am aware, has Yale actually tried the method...