Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and onetime ("ernstwhile") Senators Ernst of Kentucky and Lea of Tennessee, were appointed by the President to a commission for the erection in Nashville, Tenn., of a memorial to Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson.* The Commission will also include three Senators chosen by the...
". . . Since Alexander Hamilton" is a phrase which may well jumble the dreams of Andrew William Mellon. What the sidewalks of New York were to Alfred Emanuel Smith. "... since Alexander Hamilton" is to Mr. Mellon. He almost never dines publicly without it. His perpetual, though flattering, subordination to Hamilton arises, of...
Unfortunately there lurks in the back ground the alarming possibility of civil service regulation. A Democratic Senator has proposed the idea. Of course there is really little danger, particularly because administration officials, it is said, hope to obtain enumerators of "a very high standard of intelligence," such as members of...
Senator Moran ignored the possibility that Mr. Fuller might frame the checks. Apparently he wished Mr. Fuller to burn them. Rarely, if ever before, had a public servant been blamed for keeping his salary.
*His brother Simon Guggenheim, Republican Senator from Colorado (1907-13), is also a great giver-$3,500,000 for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (for his dead son) for scholarships for advanced study abroad, without regard to sex, race, creed or color.