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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After he recalled Henry Lewis Stimson from Manila in March to be his No. 1 Cabinet member, President Hoover searched the land for a suitable Governor General of the Philippines. The job pays well, $18,000 per year. It has served as a stepping stone to higher Federal office (William Howard Taft, Statesman Stimson). There were plenty of applicants...
...Confirmed: Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board; onetime Senator Irwine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin as a judge in the Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
...House last week arose many a member to debate legislation entitled H. R. 2667: a BILL to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States and for other purposes. By Representative Willis C. Hawley. This was the Tariff Bill, now officially before the House. But behind the debate was no conviction, no electrifying enthusiasm. The debaters well knew that their words beat empty air, that the real fate of this measure was being settled elsewhere...
...Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces is uncivilized, inasmuch as he, a member of the Knickerbocker Whist Club, ranks high among bankers who are also bridgers. As an employe of Fuller & Smith Co., Cleveland advertising agency, Mr. Steffan played many a rubber in Harry Dwight Smith's pleasant, photograph-adorned office, wrote also many a TIME advertisement...
...Hughes '94, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, G. H. Chase '96, Professors J. L. Coolidge '95, and C. N. Greenough '98, Philip P. Chase '99, Dean of the Summer School, and Guy Holliday '89, Secretary of the Law School, are among those members going from the University. Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr., '14, member of the Harvard Corporation, Eliot Wadsworth '98, President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, will also be among those Boston members in attendance. William Tudor Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine...