Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter accepting Alanson Bigelow Houghton's resignation as British Ambassador. The President said:". . . I need not tell you how much I shall feel the loss of your services . . . even though it is to be followed by a continuation of your public life in the Senatorship of the State of New York." Choice of a successor to Mr. Houghton was delayed, perhaps to see what Senators, speechmakers and onetime ambassadors would be available after the election...
...were as eager for the portfolio of Secretary of State. Few were as well qualified by experience. Ever since his college days at Amherst, Robert Lansing's sphere of interest had been worldwide. At 28 he was associate counsel for the U. S. in the Behring Sea Arbitration. Later he represented his country in more international controversies than any other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held...
Naturally, when President Wilson went to the Versailles Conference he took the Secretary of State. Mr. Lansing opposed linking the League Covenant with the Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His visionary ardor had become imperiousness, self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force...
...Russel Erskine Bureau of Harvard at the authorization of the Boston City Council in 1926 will bear its first fruits in the next few months with the start of a progressive revision of present methods of signal control", asserted M. N. Halsey traffic expert in charge of a Massachusetts state survey to a CRIMSON representative yesterday...
...third revision has already been made effective by the State. This is the changing and amendment of Boston traffic ordinances in accordance with the code recommended at the Hoover Conference on traffic. Boston also has been affected by the new Massachusetts law which gives supervisory control of all lights and through street regulations to the state. The new signal units will be subject to this...