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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicaragua.The Administration's answer to last week's news from Nicaragua (see p. 18) was a quiet order to the Navy Department to send 1,000 more marines to Managua at once. The week's news was that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming...
Neither, Mr. Huddleston wished to make plain, was he. "It may be a very good thing that our law be changed," he remarked sarcastically, "so that Cabinet officials may contribute something to the wisdom of the matter under discussion as well as their handsome appearance...
...other members of the Commission-Edgar B. Brossard of Utah and Sherman J. Lowell of New York-for belonging to the "Marvin group." He attacked President Coolidge for disposing of former Commissioners, notably David J. Lewis of Maryland, when their views and actions displeased. He also charged disregard of law and improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which permits 50% increases or decreases by the President independent of Congress. The Coolidge record is 18 increases and five decreases, the latter including lowered rates on bobwhite quail, mill-feed, paintbrush...
Four years ago, while underworldly Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Seattle was away, the president of the Seattle City Council, Mrs. Bertha Knight Landes, wife of Dean Landes of the University of Washington and sister-in-law of President Emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, stepped in as acting mayor and "closed the town." The town had needed closing so badly that the Better Element was very pleased with Mrs. Landes. In 1926, it elected her Mayor of Seattle by a 5,000-vote majority...
Died. Melton D. Bryant, 52, philanthropist, brother-in-law of Henry Ford, member of the Michigan State Legislature since 1924; of heart disease; in Traverse City, Mich...