Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In five months since March 4, Secretary Hyde has shown a patient persistence in carrying out his job. He is hardworking earnest, honest. What he lacks in brilliance he makes up in frankness. If he has brought no remarkable innovations to the vast departmental organization under him, he has at...
Army. Military appropriations added to naval have reached totals which made President Hoover blink in astonishment. For this year he found that estimated national defense expenditures of the U. S. would be $741,000,000. Great Britain was spending only $547,000,000, France $523,000,000. What concerned him...
To discover why the Army cost so much President Hoover instructed Secretary of War Good to appoint a special commission for the General Staff. Specifically this commission was to "see what services and other outlays have become obsolete through advancement of science and war methods; and what development programs can...
2) So fractious a subject was sugar that the Committee agreed to give additional public hearings on the Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am...
"The U. S. has no effective check on their own boats and their own people engaged in the violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the...