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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City, Okla., largest newspaper in the State. Reason: Prohibition...
Just before Secretary Kellogg departed, his Department made the long-expected announcement of Joshua Reuben Clark's appointment as Under Secretary of State, to succeed Robert Edwin Olds, who resigned two months ago. An international lawyer from Utah, 57, Mr. Clark's specialty has lately been Mexico. He sat on the Mixed Claims Commission in Mexico City two years ago. Last year he was Ambassador Morrow's chief legal aide...
Quotas. The managerial conferences ended with the impression that the Beaver Man is, more than ever, his own manager-in-chief. The Hooverlike scheme of vote quotas for each State to "shoot at" superseded Dr. Hubert Work's idea of specialized drives among women or in the South. Returning to Colorado, his own home State, Chairman Work proceeded to lecture the local G. O. P. Unless it ceased its internal quarreling he predicted "a greatly reduced majority, if any." He said: "You in Colorado have become careless of your party...
...President does not make the laws. He does his best to execute them whether he likes them or not. The corruption in enforcement activities which caused a former Republican Prohibition Administrator to state that three-fourths of the dry agents were political ward heelers named by politicians without regard to Civil Service laws and that prohibition is the 'new political pork barrel,' I will ruthlessly stamp out. Such conditions can not and will not exist under any administration presided over...
...change in the law. I personally believe that there should be change and I shall advise the Congress in accordance with my constitutional duty of whatever changes I deem 'necessary or expedient.' It will then be for the people and the representatives in the national and State legislatures to determine whether these changes shall be made...