Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution (a proposed amendment to the Constitution) which would bring a President into office and a Congress into session within two months of their elections. (At present, a President takes office four months after an election; and a Congress does not meet until 13 months later unless called in special session...
John Edgar Hoover, born in the District of Columbia, was graduated from George Washington Law School; a member of the District bar, he was called upon seven years ago, when only 23, to be a special assistant to the Attorney General. That was in the day of a Democratic Administration. Working under Attorney General Palmer, young Hoover handled the legal arrangements of the cases by which the Government secured the deportation of Emma Goldman, of Alexander Berkman, of Ludwig Martens (the "Ambassador" of Soviet Russia...
Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany had delivered to Sir James Eric Drummond a note which requested further information concerning the admittance of Germany into the League. Special mention was made of Germany's anxiety to avoid military commitments in any form...
Announcement was made by way of Paris that Tsar Boris of Bulgaria is about to make the annually projected courting tour of Europe in search of a bride. Courting has a special sense for him; it means a round of the courts to court some eligible young princess. The young Tsar, nearly 31 years of age, son of long-nosed Ferdinand (who abdicated in 1918) intends to travel first to Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, where there are no princesses, but where he may meet Rumanian Queen Marie's youngest progeny -Princess Ileana who, however...
...Charles Scribner's Sons and sold for $10. The editor is Waldemar Kaempffert, formerly of the Scientific American, now of Popular Science Monthly. A whole series of scientific writers contribute a whole series of articles, readable and comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio, photography, motion pictures, phonographs; 3) POWER: steam, electricity, illumination; 4) EXPLOITING RESOURCES : iron and steel, copper and "nobler metals," oil, coal, lumbering, cotton, agriculture; 5) LABOR SAVING DEVICES: automatic tools, pneumatic devices, sewing machines, shoemaking...