Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confirmed Irvine Luther Lenroot as a Judge of the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals. No senatorial courtesy was accorded this onetime Senator. His nomination was bitterly fought because, once a Wisconsin Liberal, he had turned Conservative, had hindered the Senate's Oil Scandals investigation, had lobbied for power interests. His confirmation by the Senate was first-class news. Like all Senate votes on presidential nominations, the vote was taken in "executive session," behind closed doors, secretly...
...secret truth about this general election is that whatever party gets into power it will not make a hair's breadth of difference to the country in general policy and tradition. There will be no new social revolution if Ramsay MacDonald becomes Prime Minister again. The social revolution is already in full swing owing to income tax and death duties and the breaking up of the old landed estates. The Labor party ... are utterly unable to find any vital differences of philosophy or method between themselves and their opponents...
Quite satisfied with the dullness of the campaign was Stanley ("Safety First") Baldwin. Paused on the brink of the election, he issued to the press a statement which reminded U. S. citizens of "Keep cool with Coolidge" (1924), or for that matter of any statesman in power and up for re-election...
Wages, Prices. The cost of living has slowly declined since 1922, wholesale prices having fallen an average of 1/10 of 1% each year. While prices were being kept relatively stable, wages increased, so that the purchasing power of wages rose 2.1% a year. So, while prices are slightly lower than in 1922, purchasing power of wages is almost 15% greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt...
...true. Mr. Smith was inside, sitting on the right of Professor Felix Frankfurter, famed Harvard Law School liberal and Sacco-Vanzetti defender. Close by sat Professor Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law. Mr. Smith talked for two hours on Water Power, municipal v. private operation, from his long experience of it in New York. Utmost secrecy attended the dinner. Newsgatherers, as such, are never allowed in the Union Club. Nevertheless, when Mr. Smith found the Press was present, he said: "You've got to give the boys the news...