Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary. A two-hour conference between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hoover served as the basis for the story that the Treasury Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire to appoint Col. William J. Donovan, present Assistant Attorney General, to the Attorney General's Cabinet position. Mr. Donovan is a Catholic, is also no ardent prohibitionist, consequently Klan and other anti-Catholic influences are against him as are also prohibitionists who are vitally interested in the supposition that Mr. Hoover may shift prohibition enforcement from...
...discussed during his meetings with President Coolidge. with Senator Borah and with other Congressional leaders. At any rate it was after a conference with Mr. Hoover that Senator McNary of Oregon, Farm Relief leader, announced that he would not fight for consideration of a Farm Relief bill at the present short session. The much discussed extra session therefore, became virtually assured, will probably be called by Mr. Hoover shortly after his inauguration...
...Certainly the country is ashamed of the present Congress and its immediate predecessors whose members, by refusing the country a reapportionment, HAVE BROKEN THEIR CONGRESSIONAL OATHS AND SHIRKED THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY...
Changes. According to present estimates of 1930 population, the following states will gain or lose in their representation and their electoral vote...
...himself described the scheme as "embryonic." John W. O'Leary, suggested as head of the new regime, said that "the whole thing" was in a "formative state." and James Simpson, Marshall Field president, scolded Mr. Strawn for making a "premature" announcement. Yet, loose and shapeless as the plan at present appears, the business government movement, perhaps immediately inspired by the desirability of "cleaning" Chicago before the World's Fair of 1933, is undeniably under...