Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval...
...which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce, etc., or the law which forbids Internal Revenue officers engaging in the tobacco or liquor business. The first part of this resolution was perfunctorily absurd* and would not have been urged if only Secretary Davis had been involved. The second part was designed simply to embarrass Mr. Mellon, though its proponents knew the odds were all against their ousting him. The "liquor business" charge has so often been brought against Mr. Mellon and so often answered† that there is little legislative health in it. And the "business or commerce...
...March 4, 1921, Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes. N.J.. bore a son, which like many others born that day, was christened Warren Harding. On March 4, 1929, the same Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes, N.J., bore her second son. This infant, like others born that day, was named Herbert Hoover...
...love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when she isn't hungry...
...great financiers assembled in Paris as the Second Dawes Committee spent last week in elaborating privately their plan of creating a stupendous Bank of International Settlement (TIME, March 11) to deal simultaneously and on a business basis with every phase of the German...