Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...
...Neither of the other two Hoovers looks like the President (though George Akerson, presidential secretary, is held by many to be almost the "double" of his chief). Yet trickery of some sort might have been suspected one day last week when this amazing episode took place: The President was seen to leave his executive office, clad in his usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat...
...said President Hoover, "gave my views [at the opening of the current special session of congress]. . . . I then pressed . . . the importance of maintaining the flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties...
...Lowell Institute this year announces that five Harvard Professors will be listed among the speakers in the annual series of free public lectures to be held in Huntington Hall, in the Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, Boston...
Engaged in gathering material and data, four clubs of the Harvard Law School are preparing their cases for the semi-final arguments of the Ames competition to be held on Thursday, November 22 and Friday November 23. On the first day, the Chafee and Warren Clubs will oppose each other, while on the second day, the Scott and Bryce Clubs will argue their cases. The magnificent new court-room of Langdell Hall, with a seating capacity of 800, will be inaugurated with these arguments...