Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long-heralded conference between President Harding and the Governors of the states on prohibition was postponed until after the President's trip to Alaska. The postponement was generally attributed to the inability of the prohibition enforcement division to draw up a comprehensive plan of enforcement which could be presented at the conference...
According to accounts, he paid for the entire trip out of his own pocket. He is also reported to have written to the Shipping Board asking that he be allowed to pay his expenses on the Leviathan's trial trip. He is expected to join Secretary of War Weeks on a tour of the Eastern Army posts in August. Already he has investigated the proposed new naval base at Alameda, Calif., reclamation projects in the West, and the needs of the Canal Zone in fortifications...
After nearly two weeks of accusation that he was taking the Leviathan on a $1,000,000 junket in the guise of a trial trip, Chairman Lasker replied to his accusers. The next day the Democratic National Committee replied that his reply was no reply. The substances of both charge and countercharge bear an interesting comparison, because both are true...
Said Mr. Lasker: " This very trial trip was fully provided for by experts engaged in December, 1919, by a Shipping Board headed by John Barton Payne under the Democratic Administration. . . . In January, 1922, the experts referred to ... asked the present Shipping Board . . . to appropriate $120,000 to cover the cost of the trial trip, which sum included the cost of guests...
...other words, a Democratic Shipping Board chose the experts who ordered the trial trip, and the experts delivered their opinion to a Republican Shipping Board which put them in effect. The two statements are not contradictory...