Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three United Mine Workers, three operators and Secretary Davis constituted the committee which did most of the actual conferring. When they had finished Secretary Davis issued statements. His points: 1) "It is useless for small operators to attend any conference unless the major operators attend and agree to remedial measures...
Senators-Suspect. Its continued existence affirmed by a specific vote, the Senate campaign funds committee under the Missouri Reed invited Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois to come and add to his testimony on his 1926 campaign. Mr. Smith had asked for a postponement. The committee set his hearing for Jan...
Secretary Wilbur's list represented the first of four successive programs planned by U. S. Navy men for the next 20 years. Each program is to take five years to complete. The "speculative" cost of the first five-year program, submitted last week, was put at $725,000,000...
The Crime Commission of New York State (Caleb H. Baumes, chairman) has lately wrought upon U. S. penal codes the most signal changes of the decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model...
The Irish Free State Government "advised" King-Emperor George V, last week, to appoint a new Governor General to the Irish Free State. His Majesty was further "advised" that an acceptable appointee would be James McNeill, now resident in London as High Commissioner for the Irish Free State.