Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted...
...four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican district in Worcester to represent it at the State House in Boston. He was Massachusetts' Lieutenant-Governor- the first Democratic one in 70 years-in 1913 and its Governor in 1914 & 1915. In 1918 he was elected to the U.S. Senate...
...World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made him one of the State Department's most valued diplomats. He had served as Undersecretary of State under Charles Evans Hughes and was U. S. Ambassador to Belgium before stepping down to ministerial grade to accept the more important post at Ottawa. Deeply concerned was President Hoover at the way seasoned...
...Gate of the White House grounds. Walking through the rolling South Grounds, they skirted the back of the White House and entered the executive offices by a rear door used only by the President himself. It was 8:45 a. m. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon?for he was one of the three?removed his coat without aid (none of the White House staff had yet arrived) and laid it neatly on a messenger's desk. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills tossed his coat into a chair. So did Roy Archibald Young, governor of the Federal Reserve Board. President...
Chairs were pulled close to the table. The President talked. Secretary Mellon talked. Governor Young talked. Undersecretary Mills read figures from papers. Thirty minutes later the four men arose with one thing definitely settled: There should be immediate tax reduction...