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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authors McNary & Haugen. The Senator joint-author of the McNary-Haugen bill is Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other...
...Congressman-Hamilton Fish Jr., born 1888-talked in terms of generations: "When this country reaches a population of two hundred or two hundred and fifty million people . . . some overt act of Mexico will force us to go down there. If it does, I hope we will go to stay and bring two or three million Americans down there to bring law and order to that Godforsaken country...
...last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry had kept to the "decencies of controversy," for "if the decency of controversy is observed, even the fundamentals of religion may be attacked without the matter being blasphemous." Editor Sterry's stay in jail is but technical, until through his lawyer, Lionel Cross, able Negro, he can make appeal to the higher Canadian courts...
...Alejandro Cesar, newly appointed Minister of the Diaz Government of Nicaragua, presented, his credentials at the White House last week. President Coolidge told him that the U. S. marines would not stay in Nicaragua "longer than is necessary." ¶As it must to some, rose fever came last week to President Coolidge. It causes a slight irritation in the membranes of his nose and throat. "It is not serious," said the physicians, "but it is annoying." ¶Dover (N. J.) Lodge No. 541 of the Loyal Order of Moose invited President Coolidge to become a member. His secretary despatched...
Professor McDougall came to Harvard in 1920, when he became a professor in the department of Psychology. It was during his stay at the University that he became prominent in the public eye during the investigation of the "Margery" case, Professor McDougall was among those who undertook the investigation of Mrs. Crandon's mediumistic activities. He reported that he was not convinced that there was anything super-natural about her performance as a medium...