Word: maddening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a keen financier and wary junketeer. Since the adjournment of Congress he has traveled some 12,000 miles, visiting the Canal Zone, and in general "sticking his nose" into Government finances. In Panama he is said to have discovered a $7,000,000 surplus of the canal railroad, Government property, the books of which had never been audited by a Government auditor...
American naval experts assert that we should not violate even the spirit of the document in increasing the angle of our guns. Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is sure that to do so would be a grievous violation of our good faith. The President himself must make the final decision. Three factors will probably be involved: 1) Whether the change is a violation of the treaty in spirit or letter; 2) Whether it would have undesirable consequences in the attitude of foreign nations to us; 3) Whether it would have any military value if Great Britain...
...change can be made under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty is a question which Secretary Hughes is said to be discussing with the British Foreign Office. Although American Naval officers declare that we are fully within our rights under the Treaty in increasing the range of our guns, Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that he would protest the right of the Navy Department to make the change. Secretary Hughes and President Harding will be consulted before action is taken...
...Chairmen of the Appropriations Committees of the two Houses-Senator Warren and Representative Madden (Republicans)-made public tabulated statements of the 1923 and 1924 budgets, showing a decrease of $233,802,504 for next year. At once Representative Burns (ranking Democrat of the House Appropriations Committee) replied that the statements did not tell the whole tale-that reappropriations and deficiency appropriations would bring the expenditure for 1924 well above that...
...figures of Mr. Warren and Mr. Madden...