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...author of the House bill, Representative Frank R. Reid, is from Illinois. Fortunately for the President, Chairman Martin Barnaby Madden of the House Appropriations Committee is also from Illinois* Mr. Madden was called to the White House for a conference with Mr. Reid, Chief of Engineers Jadwin and President Coolidge. He emerged as the Coolidge spokesman for a compromise...
...Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work might get started on the rivers below Illinois at once, Mayor Thompson's bluster vanished. He went back to Chicago saying he would work to draft...
...Duhig, Chairman, and Dorothy M. Pohl; H. G. Burnett and Kathaleen Madden; C. W. Dupertuis and Willa Rickard; Edward Hall and Elizabeth Ewey; W. L. Molina and Jean Page; R. H. Weatherhead and Ethel White...
...Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee: ". . . The amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland is a subterfuge. Why does he not move to repeal the Volstead Act, if he is in earnest? . . . The law is here and here it will remain. The law will be enforced, irrespective of what Maryland may think about it. ... I am a Wet-I would probably vote for a legitimate motion to repeal, but never ... for any such subterfuge as he now proposes...
...appointment of Lawyer David E. Kaufman of Philadelphia as U. S. Minister to Egypt; the new Chilean Ambassador, Dr. Carlos Davila, to present credentials; Senators Charles Curtis of Kansas and Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, and Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, to pay respects; Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee to talk flood control...