Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration of the term of the President who appointed him; 2) whether Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary of the Treasury by reason of the law which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce...
...measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill amended. Perhaps as much as two months will be spent in Senate wrangling over...
...report of the Special Commission on the Charles River Basin is now before the Legislature. It proposes to complete the parks and drives on both sides of the Basin from the Charles River Dam to the dam just above Watertown Square. To increase the park and playground area and to provide for continuation of the drives, the banks of the Basin are to be filled in on the Boston side to a maximum of about four hundred feet...
Commencing next week, there will probably be indoor practice games although no tentative teams have yet been picked. After this, with weather permitting, the squad will probably begin its outdoor work around April 1. The final group of candidates is expected to report shortly when the baseball men who are now on the hockey squad will report...
Among other earnings were: Parke, Davis & Co., ("Building the fortress of health" since 1875) report net income of $8,208,874. Previous year...