Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the bill appropriating $89,820,000 to run the Departments of State, Labor and Justice. The Administration's Navy-building program appeared blocked, so the President agreed to cut down on it if Congress would at least authorize building 25 cruisers (see p. 9). Fresh warnings emanated from the White House on tax-cutting, tariff-tampering, flood control, shipping policy, etc., etc. Congress had sat long and done little. Should it become extravagant to make up for lost time, vetoes might ensue...
...Besides the four names above, 126 other women help make laws in the U. S., as members of state legislatures. One is a Negress, Mrs. E. Howard Harper of West Virginia. The party affiliations of the 126 are as follows: Republicans, 86; Democrats, 34 nonpartisan, 5; independent...
...more immediate interest than the "power trust" now is the elaborate and expensive "lobby" it maintained in Washington to escape a Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...
Scene. The office of Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, in 1923. Secretary of State Ed. Jackson, soon to be elected governor, enters and says to Governor McCray: "I know your condition and we might just as well get down to brass tacks. We are very anxious to get this appointment [Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County]. You go into the room of your private secretary, and when you return there will be $10,000 in the drawer of your desk. No one will know about it. You can call Remy over and tell him you changed your mind...
Trial. The above conversation was part of the testimony of Mr. McCray in the criminal trial of Governor Ed Jackson in Indianapolis last week. The prosecution by the State was in the hands of able William H. Remy (TIME, Feb. 20), whom Mr. McCray had appointed in 1923. It looked like a clear-cut bribe conspiracy, out of which it would be difficult for Governor Jackson to squirm. But he did get out of it, easily, quietly. His lawyers pointed out that, under Indiana's statute of limitations, no man can be indicted for a bribery crime more than...