Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work Done. The Coolidge era has seen three great reductions in taxes, about five and a quarter billion dollars lopped off the public debt, the war debts refunded, adoption of the multilateral treaty renouncing war, the appropriation of 325 million dollars for Mississippi flood control, the 275-million dollar Federal buildings' program, the civil air program, the implanting of a tradition of economy in government...
...Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed and later accepted when higher postal rates were provided to meet the cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto was sustained. A bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon the nation's revenues"- the flood control bill as originally conceived...
...York where there are no free ferries, some bankers with $25,000,000 in cash and ample credit were last week seeking permission to build a colossal toll bridge across the narrows from Staten Island to Brooklyn. A narrows bridge is opposed by the War Department, which foresees New York Harbor clogged by its debris in case of war...
Chicago's police commissioner, William F. Russell, who lately staged a spectacular round-up of the Chicago underworld-and then released his catch-professed great fury. "It's a war to the finish!" he cried. "I've never known a challenge like this. . . . We're going to make this the knell of gangdom in Chicago." Between Chicago's police and the Federal agents assigned to make Chicago dry, exists a state of feeling not unlike the inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital...
...France. Then four university years at Lille and Paris, majoring in English and graduating with a B. A. English instructor at a Paris lycée or high school. Marriage. Instructor of Phonetics at the Sorbonne. Much poorly paid writing of text books in collaboration with his wife. War. Served all four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter to the Paris Peace Conference, the chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their most secret and vital meetings. Perhaps...