Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis began a fresh week's work by journeying up to the Senate with something it had been expecting from him. Handing some papers to Vice President Dawes, he explained that they contained a report on unemployment in the U. S. as requested lately in the maiden speech of Senator Wagner of New York (TIME March 12). With the air of a man patting a pretty good bond on the back Secretary Davis said that while unemployment is "serious" it is "not so extensive or so grave as the estimates which have been generally...
Further to harass the Commission, there was present in Geneva the author of the Russian project, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, a round-faced, round-bodied but keen-witted little man who is Soviet Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. Bustling straight to the point, he stood up before the Commission and charged that, although the League Assembly & Council have considered the problems of disarmament on 38 separate occasions, and although its deliberations have been continued by 14 committees during more than 120 series of sittings, still the fact remains -said Comrade Litvinov-that "not a single real step had been taken...
Generals James G. Harbord & John J. Carty (president of the Radio Corporation of America and vice-president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., respectively), last week recommended communication by a universal language, for the sake of world peace and world efficiency. General Harbord showed that embarrassment and hesitancy between individuals of different nationalities would be reduced. General Carty said that 750,000 of the total world population 1,748,000,000 now knows and uses Esperanto...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (student, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.) was elected vice-president of the sophomore class at Dartmouth College. Milton C. Emerick was elected president...
...Harvard Republican Club held its elections last night. F. L. Felton '29 was chosen chairman, W. L. Shearer '29 vice chairman, and Edward Dane '28 secretary. The position of chairman of the executive committee was given to R. S. Holden...