Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special session of the Senate called by President Hoover to confirm his Cabinet appointments was the shortest on record. It lasted only an hour and a half. During that time the nominations of eight members of the new Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration...
...Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill amended. Perhaps as much as two months will be spent in Senate wrangling over the measure. Congress may not be able to adjourn before the end of summer...
...from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only in U.S. hay mows do a few yokels with pitchforks still believe that a citizen, who comes "from" the President, represents?as Mr. Root modestly says that he does?"only...
...Cullinan, for he had been promised retirement for life on a handsome income if he won. Scores of U. S. sporting folk are making the trip to Aintree this year. Billy Barton's Mr. Bruce led a party of Marylanders over, including Winants, Parkses, Symingtons. Sailing on a special Grand National trip on the 55. Berengaria were Mrs. Payne Whitney, who has two horses entered, Easter Hero and Maguelonne; A. Charles Schwartz, whose Darracq will run; Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, William H. Neilson Voss, Alfred 0. Corbin, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Joseph J. Larkin, Robert H. McCormick. Late betting quotations...
...fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat...