Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Likewise the President has put in a new system of buzzers: one short sharp ring brings Secretary George Akerson. Other signals summon lesser secretaries, stenographers, doormen...
Calvin Coolidge in the White House carried on the same system, roughly, through the appointment of F. Stuart Crawford as research secretary. This post, however, went under a cloud when it was found that the Coolidge addresses, when dealing with geography and other indis- putable facts, followed with a striking literalness the text of the International Encyclopaedia. Besides, Mr. Coolidge had a certain vanity about his literary style which he considered inimitable. Lobby gossip went out through Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns or Private Secretary Edward Clarke not through Mr. Crawford...
...travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development of inland waterways as a part of the Hoover farm relief program...
From a Brooklyn pier one day last week steamed away the S. S. Coamo, Porto Rico-bound. Aboard her were eleven men who composed a commission going to Santo Domingo to establish a budget system in that little republic.* Chief Budgetman was Charles Gates Dawes, first U. S. Budget Director (1921-22). To limit expenses, most of the Commissioners paid their own bills. Santo Domingo will be billed only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them...
City Manager Sherrill warned them against entering homes as firemen on inspections and then suddenly transforming themselves into policemen to arrest Cincinnati's evildoers thus detected. Oldtime politicians who deplore the lack of politics in Cincinnati's form of government charged that the new system would reduce the efficiency of the fire department, predicted that Cincinnati might be swept away in an avenging holocaust...