Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 free sugar imports from the Islands were limited to 300,000 tons yearly. Later this restriction was removed. During hearings on the present tariff bill an attempt was made to restore it. This movement was blocked through the influence of Secretary of State Stimson, who, a onetime (1927-29) Philippine governor, said that a tax on Philippine sugar would ruin the Islands. The sugar Senators, arguing chiefly to impress their sugar-growing constituents, assumed that if the Filipinos were made a free people as they have so long agitated to be, it would...
Died. Dr. Mitchell Langworthy, 38, orthopedic surgeon of Spokane; of three gunshot wounds in the abdomen. One John Salmi, insane Finn miner, thought Dr. Mitchell's report had prevented his receiving additional State compensation, entered the Doctor's office, fired on him, shot the attending nurse in the shoulder, blew out his own brains...
Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...
...Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...Stanley Melbourne Bruce, youngest Prime Minister of a British dominion, was forced by canny, wrinkle-eyed ex-Premier William Morris ("Billy") Hughes to issue a call for a general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of the state to apply compulsory arbitration is one of the cornerstones of Australia's labor policy. Opposition members rose in Parliament, gleefully shouted "This is your swan song, Bruce...