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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
Getting elected President, after receiving the nomination, is a five-month job. Learning to be President?to do the right things at the right times, and not to do the wrong things?is a much longer...
...sense, it was a tombstone for Reed after all, because hardly anyone bothered to read the report and almost no one remained in the chamber to hear the Senator dilate and expatiate and ejaculate upon it. It was an old, oft-told story and much though they used to like Senator Reed, his colleagues could not bear to hear him go all through the Vare iniquities again...
Leaks from the Subcommittee revealed that the Germans and French were wrangling furiously, the former insisting that the Committee first consider how much Germany is able to pay, and the French demanding that the first item on the agenda be a determination of how much Germany owes...
Correspondents with nothing to write about sensationally described as "The Stamp Report" a memorandum in which Sir Josiah Stamp suggested to the Committee that it might be possible to work along the following line: 1) determine how much Germany ought to pay; 2) decide what portion of this amount Germany must pay; 3) investigate and establish the degree of German capacity to pay the rest...