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...McKelvie, onetime Governor of Nebraska and the Board's wheat member, was the least popular Hoover nominee. The President had searched longest to find a wheat man for his Board and Mr. McKelvie's was the last difficult appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that he knew nothing about wheat farming, that he was out of sympathy with Federal aid for those who did produce this crop. His most bitter opponent was his fellow Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, whose candidacy for the Presidency...
...Tariff Commission expert on ceramics. During the Senate tariff hearings he prompted Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have him discharged from the Commission's employ. The chief complaint against Mr. Koch was the man who had given him his Com-mission job-William Burgess of Pennsylvania, onetime (1921-1925) Tariff Commissioner, now vice-president of U. S Potters Association. Lobbyist Burgess, now 72, denied he was a lobbyist, but explained that the potters paid him $7,500 per year...
...complaint shall be at that time reported...
...think, fair to say that the colleges have trained very few creative artists in any field of art, with the possible exception of literature. Even in that department it is interesting to recall Barrett Wendell's complaint that, during his twenty-five years as a teacher of English composition, he had produced not a single great writer...
...General Pershing did the best he could notwithstanding the many embarrassing handicaps which .were placed upon him. He demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of the administration that he was a soldier through and through, one who would loyally obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief without question or complaint. How natural it was a few months later when the same administration was looking for a commander for the A. E. F. that it should turn to this soldier of ability; of great force and dignity who would not play politics. The details as to just how he was selected...