Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ It was a busy executive week for President Coolidge. He appointed Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, who had so notably served the administration as a pacifier in Nicaragua, to be governor-general of the Philippines (see THE CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from...
¶ There came another attack on administration policy from the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Lately rebuked for its insistence on a large tax cut (TIME, Dec. 5), the Chamber announced- at least its national president, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, announced- that more than three-fourths of all...
Representatives of the United Mine Workers came, led by John L. Lewis, their president. It was at their reiterated request (TIME, Nov. 28, Dec. 5) that Secretary Davis had issued his invitations. With some 100,000 members on unsuccessful strike since last spring in bituminous Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio...
The problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was...
Menelaos shakes hands with his subjects and, by stentorian snoring and an overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is...