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...legislative council of the National Education Association in conference at Cleveland was addressed by United States Commissioner of Education Tigert in favor of the creation of a " Department of Education and Welfare" in the National Government, rather than a " Department of Education " only-as provided in the Towner-Sterling Bill. Commissioner Tigert stated that he appeared with " the consent and approval " of the President. He reminded the council that President Harding's father " is still practicing medicine," that " his only brother is a leading physician," that his sister " was a missionary with medical leanings." Nevertheless, the council voted...
...important legislative achievement except bills of a non-partisan nature and except the Fordney-McCumber tariff act can be awarded the Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although a step of great importance, was distinctly of a non-partisan nature, while the two most important partisan measures, sponsored by the President himself...
Some pay tribute to the late statesman as the originator of the Entente Cordiale, which he was not. The creation of an entente depends, first, on necessity-the ex-Kaiser and German Kultur supplied that; second, on the invitation of one power to another-King Edward VII took the lead there. But Edward the Peacemaker remained king of a "perfide Albion," enemy of France, until Delcassé performed the incredibly great feat of making France accept the entente which was to be her salvation...
...hours before Delcassé died, General Lyautey went under the surgeon's knife at Rabat, on the African shore of the Mediterranean. He may die. These two Frenchmen, one a politician and the other a Field Marshal, were chiefly responsible for the creation of France's colonial empire, a territory larger than the United States by 1,000,000 square miles...
...Towner-Sterling Educational Bill providing for a large measure of federal interference in state education and the creation of a Department of Education in the national government was blocked in Congress largely through the efforts of Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, the President's personal physician and now chief coordinator of the Federal Hospitalization Board, who wishes to see a Department of Public Welfare with four branches: Education, Public Health, Social Service, Veterans' Relief. Senator Sterling serves notice of a finish fight for a separate Department of Education. And the National Chamber of Commerce continues its attack upon...