Word: secretaryships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loan Staff, did valuable work, received due recognition. In June of 1920, when not yet 28 years of age, he was nominated by President Wilson as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When the Harding Administration succeeded that of Mr. Wilson, he was reappointed to the assistant secretaryship and in June of the same year, his importance to the U. S. Treasury was such that a special post was made for him, namely that of Under Secretary of the Treasury, a post second in importance only to that of Andrew W. Mellon...
...Government. Premier Macdonald's health was reported to be causing grave alarm. The double yoke of the Premiership and the Foreign Secretaryship were said to be aggravating has already poor state of health. His colleagues in the Cabinet want him to surrender the foreign portfolio. Meanwhile leaders in the House of Commons acted sympathetically toward...
...continue the work done during the past four years by Mr. Frederick L. Allen 12 under the title of Secretary to the Corporation, taking over these duties when Mr. Allen leaves the University this summer to join the editorial staff of the publishing house of Harper and Brothers. The secretaryship for alumni affairs is a newly created position; in this capacity Mr. Seymour will act as liaison officer between the University and the Alumni...
...excellent politician, having held many important Cabinet posts in former Governments. 3) Lord Curzon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who, while his valuable qualities are appreciated, has gained much unpopularity from his handling of the first Lausanne Conference. Anything calculated to remove him from the Foreign Secretaryship might conceivably meet with fairly general approbation...
Certain factions in the West are opposing, apparently with much success, the appointment of Herbert Hoover to the Secretaryship of the Interior, a move, which once seemed very possible, according to those who are closest to Mr. Harding. This factional objection is based on a desire to swell personal fortunes at the expense of the present and future welfare of the country as a whole...