Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secrecy issue by offering for publication in the Congressional Record the Lenroot roll-call as compiled by Pressman Mallon. Up rose Pennsylvania's haggard, young Senator Reed to demand enforcement of the Senate's secrecy rule. Complained he bitterly: "There is some hypocrite here who prattles out loud about law enforcement and in secrecy does what he dare not do publicly and gives out information." He called for the expulsion of any Senators who had given Pressman Mallon his in formation, announced a meeting of the Rules Committee to deal with this matter, and continued...
...flown in a plane over San Diego, Calif. The President was furious. He had warned his Cabinet officers specifically against flying during the War, when they were precious to him. And now the man who was not only his Number Two man in the Cabinet, but his son-in-law to boot, had flown...
...father-in-law finally said: "Well, Mac, I'll have to admit with reluctance that you were right in taking the air." For a decade after that, however, "Mac" let two of his sons who were in the Army Air Corps during the War, do the flying for the family...
Lately Mr. McAdoo, who now is practicing law in Los Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
...McAdoo plane cost $18,500. Mr. McAdoo can well afford it. He has long been rich. His law fees continually make him richer. For a merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office...