Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ How U. S. citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.
¶ From nine of her War debtors the U. S. one day last week received a semi-annual installment of $98,657,973. Two days later the President signed the Mellon-Berenger agreement by which a tenth debtor, France, will pay $6,847,674,104 in 62 years.
Thus New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, last week formally accepting the U. S. Senate seat to which he will return from the London naval conference (TIME, Dec. 9). The day before, 50 potent New Jersey Republicans had met at Orange, formed the "Morrow-for-President...
The evening the Japanese delegates were dining in state with President Hoover at the White House, the presses of the Washington Post were reeling off a sly editorial which next morning rudely jarred the polite placidity of the Washington conversations.
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...