Word: annual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brief, pithy, non-controversial was the annual report of Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell. Like his predecessors, he requested special legislation from Congress which would permit a husband and wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked little-removal by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice is prosecuting...
...thing of shreds and patches" was Secretary of Labor James John Davis's description of the fabric of the U. S. immigration law. In his annual Department report he recommended that Congress...
...wrote Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams last month in preparing his department's annual report. On the day his report was published last week sufficient Haitian friction had developed to warrant the dispatch of extra U. S. forces to the trouble-stricken black republic of the West Indies...
...Interstate Commerce Commission, in its annual report last week, shook a warning finger at non-carrier holding corporations which gain control of two or more competing railroad systems. Congress was asked to make a "thorough investigation" of this latest corporate custom by which the I. C. C. feared its plan for rail consolidations "is very likely to be partially or even wholly defeated." The Commission admitted that for such a new threat it could not find an appropriate remedy...
...Professional Golfers Association used to give a silver cup to the player who won their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that he got careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without...