Word: marred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President issued the customary proclamation calling the new Senate into session on Mar. 4 to act on executive nominations...
...Ralston at the election. But then the famed Mr. Fall resigned the portfolio of the Interior, and Postmaster General Work was shifted to his post, leaving a place in the Cabinet for Mr. New. He took it. He held it. Recently, President Coolidge announced that he would remain after Mar. 4. He has a way of pleasing without resorting to any of the tricks of the political aspirant...
...make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard. I want no secrecy. I will try to have executive sessions abolished entirely." So spake Senator-elect Cole L. Blease, ebullient Democrat from South Carolina, as he was looking over Washington, preparatory to taking office on Mar...
Barmat Scandal. For long it has been the practice of the German Government departments to invest their idle funds. Under the Bauer (Socialist) regime (June, 1919?Mar., 1920), the Ministry of Posts, which always has the largest cash reserves, invested through the firm of Barmat Brothers and other financial agents a large sum. The Government received in return questionable securities...
President Niedringhaus failed to answer the letter or promise reforms of alleged abuses. The committee then resolved to circularize the stockholders and solicit their proxies, with the purpose of voting a new board of directors into power at the company's annual meeting on Mar. 10. Whereupon President Niedringhaus, himself, sent a letter stockholders. In it he declared that the six men forming the committee, despite their assertion that they held 30,000 shares of stock among them, were none of them stockholders of record as of Jan. 30, 1925; that, if they hold stock, it has been acquired...