Word: general
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Longworth's remarks on the Senate and the general merriment in the House at the idea of the Senate doing "business," (TIME, Dec. 16) raises an interesting question...
Since reading in TIME, Dec. 2, of Henry Ford's announcement that, far from reducing wages, he was ordering a general wage increase throughout his factories, I have been watching for news of other potent manufacturers following suit...
...caused the Senate to bark, if not bite. Because he had named Albert L. Watson a U. S. District Judge in Pennsylvania, President Hoover was charged with heeding the demands of William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania R. R. president, Pennsylvania's Republican National Committeeman, rather than his own Attorney-General, and of treating the G. O. P. North, better than the G. O. P., South. Likewise abuse was heaped upon the President's appointment of Richard Joseph Hopkins as a U. S. Judge in Kansas, charged with accepting speaking fees from the Anti-Saloon League while a staff official...
...Lakin letters involved others, apparently, besides the President. He had engaged Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder, retired, onetime Ambassador to Cuba, as an assistant lobbyist. Wrote Lobbyist Lakin...
Eielson is vice president and general manager of Alaskan Airways. Inc., subsidiary of the powerful and influential Aviation Corp. He was on the second flight of rescue to an ice-beleaguered fur trading ship when he dropped from sight somewhere near Cape North, Siberia. He and Borland had food for a month. Last week that time elapsed. At Teller, Alaska, has been established a secondary base for the impatient rescuers...