Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime qualification for a Director of the Budget is the ability to say "No." The army teaches men to say "No." Army men therefore make good budget men, and the first two Directors of the Budget, were of the army. Last week the third Director of the Budget was chosen and he was of the army too. The tradition now seemed soundly entrenched. Director No. 1 was Brig.-Gen. Charles Gates Dawes. Director No. 2 was Brig.-Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord. Director No. 3 is Col. James C. Roop, who will doubtless get higher rank before long. President Hoover induced...
Born in Nebraska, educated as an engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, Col. Roop went to France with the engineers and became chief of the A. E. F.'s Purchasing Division. That gave him contact with General Dawes. When General Dawes grappled dramatically with the first budget in 1921, Col. Roop, as a chief assistant, grappled with him, without the dramatics. When Director Dawes quit in 1922, Assistant Roop quit. When Mr. Dawes went last spring to Santo Domingo, he recalled Budgetman Roop to his side to assist in preparing a financial system in that little republic. When General Dawes...
...Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal for his country over the grim neutrality of George Washington's Cabinet, thereby causing his downfall as a diplomat and prompting the passage of the Logan Act to prevent, under penalties, U. S. citizens from dealing directly with...
...Adopted (69-5) a resolution amending its secrecy for executive sessions. C. Confirmed Ferry K. Heath as assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Arch Coleman as First Assistant Postmaster General; John W. Philp as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General...
...called attention to the fact that Senator Warren, besides being the oldest Senator, had established a new duration record. No man in U. S. history can match his 36½ years of Senate service. It was, however, not yet a non-stop record. Senator Warren "took off" on his first Senate flight on Dec. 1, 1890 as one of Wyoming's first pair of Senators. He was obliged to "land to refuel" politically for two years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March...