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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of their increased majority in the next Congress, the Republicans took for themselves 15 instead of 14 seats of the 22 on the Agriculture Committee. The Ways & Means Committee (to prepare the tariff bill) was also set in motion. Incidentally Congressman James A. Frear of Wisconsin, a former member of the Committee ejected four years ago for having supported the late, great Senator La Follette, was restored to the Committee, to fill a vacancy. The third committee set up was the Rules Committee which will prepare the calendar (agenda) for the next session...
...week she resigned as Committeewoman, saying only that she had served ten years and that was enough. ¶ Balancing the discovery of Secretary of Commerce Lament's connection with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, it was disclosed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was an honorary member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ¶ An appropriation of $50,000 made by the last Congress for "prohibition educational" purposes is to be spent on posters, leaflets and cartoons to persuade the public in favor of law enforcement. Dry organizations were invited to help choose the poster...
Reparations problem. As the work progressed no public utterance was made by any member of the U.S., French, German or Japanese delegations, but the British and Italian chief delegates expressed themselves briefly. Sir Josiah Stamp: "There are three sides to our problem-political, financial and economic. And as soon as we-or any one else-have finished with one aspect, another bobs up. "It is impossible for any one to take account of all three at the same time and it is not in the province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying...
...Apropos seemed an editorial of last week in the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung of Düsseldorf, a paper generally considered the mouthpiece of one of the German delegates at Paris, Dr. Albert Voegler, Member of the Board of the Ruhr Steel Cartel...
...They ordered transmitted to all League member states the text of a Finnish proposal to establish a credit of $40,000,000, any portion of which might in case of war be extended under League auspices to any state adjudged "the victim of aggression." Thus instead of possessing an army of soldiers to enforce peace, the League would have "an army of dollars." Finns hope that this ambitious proposal will be adopted when the League Assembly meets next September...