Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN C. MACMAHON Maywood...
...Confirmed the nomination of William J. Cooper to be Commissioner of Education, succeeding John J. Tigert...
...series of resounding periods made the peace-dove seem the most vigorous and promising of birds. It was the high point among his treaty utterances. The ladies in the Senate gallery were stirred. The Senate passed the treaty with but one opposing vote, that of Senator John James Blaine, Progressive Republican of Wisconsin. Two days later he was soundly rebuked by the Wisconsin legislature...
Attorney General in President Coolidge's cabinet is John Garibaldi Sargent, huge, rustic, wise friend and onetime neighbor of Mr. Coolidge in Vermont. His first assistant is kinetic Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, who last week whisked away from magic Washington to New Mexico, there to wrestle with the Mexican boundary problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction...
...directorship meant no immediate labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...