Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Passed two bills appropriating $239,740,000 for construction of public buildings, a third appropriating $15,950,000 for war veteran hospitals.
Work Done. Last week the U. S. House of Representatives:
In the crowd of spectators at last week's Senate Lobby Committee hearings sat one inconspicuous man intently following every word of testimony, taking many a note. No professional newsgatherer, he was reporting the investigation for a special client. Inmmediately after each day's hearings a comprehensive report...
What accounted for President Hoover's particular interest in this Congressional investigation was the manner in which his name had been bandied about by the Cuban Sugar Lobby, directed by Herbert Conrad Lakin. Lobbyist Lakin had hired as the Lobby's Lawyer Edwin Paul Shattuck, because Mr. Shattuck...
"President Hoover has instructed his Secretary, Mr. Newton, to establish a contact between the Committee [House Ways & Means] and ourselves. . . . We are a little doubtful about this step . . . but of course would do what President Hoover desires as he seems to be genuinely interested in our cause. . . .