Word: war
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President Hernando Siles of Bolivia was sorry not to be able to join the goodwill party. He was occupied at La Paz by an impending war with Paraguay (see page...
...Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Ella A. Boole, National President of the W. C. T. U.; for Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon. Dr. J. Roach Straton; for Secretary of Commerce, the Hon. Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, General Secretary of the World League against Alcoholism; for Secretary of War, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin...
West were Secretaries Davis of War and Jardine of Agriculture, who are also Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...
...allotted $200,000 less in the 1930 Budget than has already been appropriated for 1929. The Federal Reserve Board gets cut $95,000. The American Battle Monuments Commission will get $100,000 less. Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission $300,000 less. An increase of 36 millions deemed necessary for the War Department will be partially offset by cutting down the -Navy Department's allotment by 16 millions. President Coolidge pointed out that the cost of national defense has increased about 100 millions since 1926 but explained that "in these prior years the defense establishments have had the use of surplus...
Throughout Europe the dry aspect of the Hoover victory continues to set best minds powerfully a-pondering. Suspicions stir that U. S. post-War prosperity may be due in large measure to prohibition. Just now the golden fetish of "American Methods" has wondrous kudos on the Continent (see France "American Methods"). In London last week the World Prohibition Federation held a belated mass meeting "to celebrate the triumph of Prohibition in the American victory of Herbert Hoover...