Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cited by the Commission were two such holding companies: Alleghany Corp. controlled by the Van Sweringen interests (Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette. C. & O.) and Pennroad Corp., controlled under a voting trust by the president and two directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of...
¶As usual, David Lloyd George covered the trail of his devious policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who...
Later, when Ambassador Gibson offered to the world in the name of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson what seemed to Mrs. Litvinov basically her husband's plan, she made up her mind that "contemptible" was the right adjective, "bounder" the right noun.
Mrs. Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and...