Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With McKinley and Cannon, Tsar Reed held control of the Rules Committee, framed programs which he would announce thus: "Gentlemen, William and Joseph and I have decided to perpetuate the following outrage." Speaker Reed once characterized his opponents as follows...
...stage for renewed international negotiations. He gave up his customary weekend fishing trip, called in Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to learn what progress U. S. experts were making in developing a "yardstick." Through Secretary Adams he ordered the Navy's 1931 budget estimates held up at the department instead of being forwarded to the Treasury. The President postponed the estimates for two months in the expectation that within that time a new basis for naval reduction will be found...
...insistently driving this measure through a reluctant Senate. It was his first major activity since coming to the Senate a year ago. Born in Grand Rapids 45 years ago, at the age of 22 Senator Vandenberg became the editor-publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, a position he held until he became a Senator. A bookish man behind large spectacles, he writes with more force than he speaks. His speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases: "The spirit of the Constitution," "The integrity...
...annual meeting and luncheon of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association was held recently...
...first start of the year against real competition, though he went the route against Georgetown a fortnight ago, limiting them to six hits. The portsider also pitched two innings against the Purple last Saturday, during which time no Holy Cross man completed the circuit. MacHale probably will be held in the relief role. The sorrel-topped righthander has improved steadily throughout the year, and is now closely pressing Howard Whitmore '29 as the leading Crimson hurler...