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Then came 1922. There was a split in the regular Republican machine, and Mr. Pinchot-who would believe it?-was elected Governor. He gave Pennsylvania a budget system, trimmed the sails of expenditure and set out to put the State on a sound financial basis. He reorganized the State Government and cut the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. He also went out to enforce prohibition...
...movement, and the prominent men lent the use of their names. There were 16 governors and eight senators, several representatives and other notables. Senator Copeland of New York, Senator McNary of Oregon, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman...
Stolid square-beamed Dutch politicians became heatedly vocal last week over an amendment to the budget passed by the Second Chamber,* which provides for the abolition of the Legation representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Vatican. The amendment was introduced by a Calvinist; and at once the Catholic leader, Mgr. Nolens, became vehement and loudly threatened to wreck the present coalition government if the measure passed. Immediately upon its adoption, the four Catholic members of Premier Colijn's Cabinet resigned. The Dutch press united in scoring both sides for debasing so important an ecclesiastical issue...
...Major Issues emerged: 1) Should France retain and dominate at crushing expense her Moroccan and Syrian mandates? 2) Should France raise the funds necessary to balance her budget by a "capital levy...
...Hoover intimated and President Harding denied, a first step toward the League of Nations? If it does involve such a possibility at least there is here a genuine issue as to policy. Although the court is the direct creation of the league and depends upon the league budget for its support, it may be that it is so far dissociated from its organization that adhering to the protocol creating the court, as the administration spokesmen have asserted, will involve no other commitments to the league. Yet the fact that so many professional and non-professional advocates of the league...