Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five captains were recommended for promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral?but the conspicuous absence on this list was the name of Captain John Keeler Robison, who is Chief of the Bureau of Engineering of the Navy Department, a post which carries with it the temporary rank of Rear Admiral. Last year, he was recommended for the permanent rank of Rear Admiral. The President did not nominate him to the Senate for the rank, however. The reason was that it was he who, acting for Secretary Denby, had O.K.'d the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to Sinclair...
...Situation. The tariff on sugar is 1.764c a pound. The Commission has authority to investigate demands for changes in the tariff and recommend changes based on differences in cost of production here and abroad. The President has authority to act on such recommendations, reducing of increasing specific tariffs by not more than 50 per cent. The Tariff Commission (one member not sitting) recommended 1) by majority of three, a reduction of tariff to 1.2302c a pound, 2) by minority of two, a reduction to 1.7616c a pound...
...general purpose of this paper," writes Richard Steele in his opening Tatler, "is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour...
...stage is now changing under our eyes, but there are factors which never change. To every young amateur I recommend the cultivation of two qualities, courage and amiability. I am not convinced that we need to be self conscious; it comes by itself. The play assumes such importance, becomes so inexorable a force with us, that we never even question our obligations...
...opaque materials, the shape of horns for acoustic instruments, the assembling of receptive membranes and marine microphones, as well as the first oscillographs of propellor vibrations. He is also responsible for an important study of musical acoustics, the significance of which led the French government to commend him and recommend his pursuance of the subject...