Word: foes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When her nomination reached the Senate, Miss Matthews's experience in and connection with the Treasury were paradoxically the very things that militated against her immediate confirmation. Confirming her once, the Senate withdrew its approval for further consideration after Senator Couzens, Treasury foe, unearthed a Senate resolution barring appointments directly from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the tax board lest the board be packed with Treasury appointees...
Although facing a foe which outweighed them, the Harvard players were effective more than once in riding-off at critical moments. Considering that these men had not played together much, the team showed up well...
Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...
Died. Robert John Gary, 61, vice president & general counsel of New York Central Lines; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was a longtime foe of Federal railroad control, successfully defended (1926) his company's right to absorb the C. C. C. & St. L. ("Big Four...
Died. Edward Reynolds, 62, vice president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.; at New Rochelle, N. Y.; after a long illness. So that Postal employes would save their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership...