Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matters. In the first place Andrew Mellon was conceded probable re-appointment to the position of Treasury Secretary. A two-hour conference between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hoover served as the basis for the story that the Treasury Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire to appoint Col. William J. Donovan, present Assistant Attorney General, to the Attorney General's Cabinet position. Mr. Donovan is a Catholic, is also no ardent prohibitionist, consequently Klan and other anti-Catholic influences are against...
...remainder which will be a fraction of the state not represented. Some of the 387 seats, however, will be left over to apply to these fractional remainders. The state with the largest fraction of unrepresented population will get the first of these extra districts, the state with the second largest unrepresented fraction will get the second extra district and so on. Extra seats will be exhausted before it is possible to give all the state fractions representation, but it is calculated that no unrepresented fraction which is finally left over will amount to more than 50% of the population...
...leader might possibly centre along La Salle St., Chicago's banking street. Here are the Reynolds brothers, George McClelland Reynolds and Arthur Reynolds, who last September (TIME, Sept. 17) merged their Continental National Bank & Trust Co. with Eugene M. Stevens' Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to make the second largest U. S. bank. The Reynolds brothers, however, are money makers rather than law makers, and Banker Stevens belongs to the comparatively younger generation. There is also Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, onetime Texan, head of Chicago's First National Bank...
Last week, brilliant, rich and potent Chinaman Sze received a cablegram at Washington where he has been Chinese Minister for eight years. At once socially popular Mme. Sze told her servants to pack?everything! Priceless bronzes, her own superb gowns, the first and second best Ming vases, and Dr. Sze's well-worn poker chips?everything...
...present Team A ranks third in the first division. Team B ranks first in the second group, while Team C and the Freshman racquetmen are field for second place in the third division...