Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before getting the War portfolio, Mr. Good declined the Postmaster-Generalship. Knowing politicians as he does, he did not wish to traffic in party patronage. But Mr. Hoover wanted him in his Cabinet as congressional contactman...
...Mitchell went to the Spanish-American war, as half-engineer, half-lawyer. He trained at Camp Zachary Taylor for the World War. In 1925 Justice Butler whispered the Mitchell name into the Coolidge ear and-presto!-Mr. Mitchell found himself Solicitor-General of the U. S. Such a good impression did he make as the Government's advocate before the U. S. Supreme Court that the Justices broadly hinted to President Hoover that he would be overlooking a good bet if he did not utilize the Mitchell legal talents in a top-notch of his Cabinet...
...Transfer, from the Treasury to the Department of Justice, of Federal enforcement. As old as the Volstead Act is the question of which department should enforce prohibition. It went to the Treasury because that department had long collected liquor taxes. Under Harding no good prohibitor would trust the task to Harry Micajah Daugherty's Department of Justice. President Hoover now favors the change, and his rejection of his close friend William J. Donovan as Attorney-General seemed prompted, aside from alleged politico-religious considerations,* by his desire to entrust future enforcement in the Department of Justice to a personal...
...Army Air Service-that a pilot who has cracked-up must make another flight at the first possible moment, to restore self-confidence. There was no need, however, for Miss Morrow to take the cure-except to be sporting and to do aviation a great and good turn...
...British Empire is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen and possibly ever will see!" exclaimed General Smuts to correspondents, "The greatest problem before South Africa is the living together in peace and cooperation of a white and a black population. . . . If we fail in its solution, our white population is doomed in Africa, and this continent will continue on its road of immemorial barbarism...