Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years (26) and is in training for a political career of his own. Personal interest was doubtless mixed with professional curiosity when Grandson Lodge pressed his inquiry and found 1) that the Department of State had not been consulted prior to the issuance of Assistant Secretary Lowman's order, 2) that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon had not reviewed the order, as perfunctorily stated in it, and 3) that Department of State officials were "surprised" by Mr. Lowman's order and "astounded" by his alleged "reciprocity" statement...
Next day brought suppressed fireworks. Secretary Mellon, of course, endorsed his subordinate's order and firmly pronounced it a matter in which the Department of the Treasury had no discretionary power. But this endorsement did not come until after Mr. Mellon had summoned Mr. Lowman to his office first thing in the morning and asked him about the "reciprocity" statement. Mr. Lowman announced that he had never made so stupid a mistake and said he would never presume to enunciate a Government policy. So, while the Department of State fumed with embarrassment and Frenchmen scowled in perplexity, the matter...
...getting colloquialisms. Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune, "first woman reporter in the Senate gallery,"was allotted four minutes to relate the evolution of the female journalist, but she spoke so quietly, so modestly, that the chairwoman (Mrs. Oliver Harriman) had to call loudly for order before two of the minutes had passed...
Retiring Commander Howard Paul Savage and his band of good-will bearers rounded off the American Legion's reoccupation of Europe by visiting Belgium and Britain before retreating in good order...
...Belgium. Good order was momentarily threatened at the palace gates in Brussels when 50 or so Legionaries and wives, who had read in Paris newspapers that King Albert was to receive the Legion, were refused admittance to the royal presence. Legionary Henry Brechner of Philadelphia, onetime pugilist, shouted, "I'll show you I'm as good as you are. I wasn't in the ring three years for nothing!" and punched the jaw of a California member of the official Savage party. Legionary Brechner was thrown...