Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Have just read Mr. John C. Wright's NEW HYMN in Feb. 18 TIME...
...Senate passed the treaty with but one opposing vote, that of Senator John J. Elaine, Progressive Republican of Wisconsin. Two days later he was soundly rebuked by the Wisconsin legislature." This last statement is false. The Wisconsin Legislature did nothing of the kind. True, a resolution was introduced in the Wisconsin Senate to that effect. But reference to pages 193-194 of the Senate journal, herewith enclosed, will show that when the resolution came up for consideration, it was killed by a unanimous vote, including the vote of the Senator who introduced the resolution...
...JOHN E. CASHMAN...
...Senate called by President Hoover to confirm his Cabinet appointments was the shortest on record. It lasted only an hour and a half. During that time the nominations of eight members of the new Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration of the term...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...