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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate adopted a resolution by Senator Walsh (Massachusetts) calling upon the Tariff Commission to submit to it a copy of this sugar report. Utah's Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, great and good friend of the domestic beet sugar industry, declared that "nobody except the President has a right to see" this report, which may be a major influence in the forthcoming sugar tariff battle...
From a mass of sensational allegations ranging from subornation of murder to "friskiness with a woman on a settee" at a New Orleans studio party, the House had reduced its formal charges against Long to eight. These, upon which the Senate never passed, included attempted bribing of legislators, failure to account for State funds, intimidation of the Press, and general incompetency...
...first explosion was followed by a second, greater one. Glass was blown from the windows. The force of the explosion blew out a skylight and the descending fragments fell through a shaft upon the people seated in the waiting room three floors below. Plaster showered from walls and ceilings. A heavy yellow gas poured through the building. Doctors, nurses and patients sniffed it and fled. Some seated in chairs took a long breath and died without moving. Some reached the windows, prepared to jump, but billows of gas enveloped them and they fell back dead. Others succeeded in leaping from...
Important in the week's development was an announcement by U. S. Secretary of State Stimson officially quashing the possibility of the U. S. Government's participation in the proposed International Bank. Secretary Stimson said: "While we look with interest and sympathy upon the efforts of the committee of experts to suggest a solution and a settlement of the vexing question of German reparations, this government does not desire to have any American official directly or indirectly participate in the collection of German reparations through the agency of this bank or otherwise...
...quick to sense the necessity of further assistance, unofficial though it was. for the reparations conference. Therefore, last Sunday, at the White House, he held an extraordinary conference of U. S. Government leaders at which a modification and reduction of German payments to the U. S. were agreed upon. These changes in U. S. claims, designed as a moral offset to the Stimson statement and as a new gesture of "friendly co-operation,'' were trivial. But they would, if accepted, be sufficient to put the U. S. in a position where its unofficial representatives at Paris could argue...