Word: laments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular incomprehension did not, however, deter President Hoover last week from announcing another volunteer survey commission. The White House conference on home building & home ownership, composed of representatives of 19 national organizations under Secretary of Commerce Lament, will, at the President's request, make "a study of the problems presented . . .; with the hope of inspiring better organization and removal of influences which seriously limit the spread of home ownership." Subjects: finance, design, equipment, city planning, transportation. President Hoover wanted to know why second mortgages on homes now often cost 25% per year...
Secretary of Commerce Lament will spend his vacation this month on the Colorado ranch of his son Robert, who lost a hand in the War, was decorated with the French Military Medal at Soissons...
...India last week and thousands were injured, the first volume of the findings of the Simon Commission on Indian Government was made public. Flag-waving imperialists have looked the report over and remain cold, "self-determination for India is still a matter of the dim future". Emotional natives lament, "most un-sympathetic". Chicago and greater America cast a superior glance London-wards, "won't John Bull ever learn a lesson from the days...
Reaction: Secretary Stimson vaguely denied that Capt. Stayton spoke with authority. Secretary Adams declared: "There's no justification for that statement." Secretary Lament explained: "There's no foundation for the statement. I resigned [from A. A. P. A.] before joining the Cabinet and have not discussed the subject since." Secretary Davis, as part of his Pennsylvania senatorial campaign, declared: "There never should be any doubt on my stand on the Prohibition question. I don't see how I can decently say that I favor anything other than the law. I'm heartily in accord with President...
Remembering the unpleasantness he endured during an attack of scarlet fever while at Phillips Exeter Academy, Thomas William Lament, Morgan partner, who was graduated from Exeter in 1888, gave the school a contagious ward to be added to Lamont infirmary...