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...members of the U. S. Tariff Commission, who serve for 12 years each, one retiring at the end of every two years. It happens that, on Sept. 30, the term of David J. Lewis, of Maryland, expires. President Coolidge announced last week that he would give Mr. Lewis an interim appointment; and it was intimated that the latter would be nominated for the full term when Congress reassembles. By Mr. Lewis' reappointment hangs a tale...
Appointments. Several appointments of interest were made. Owen D. Young, colleague of Gen. Charles A. Dawes on the First Committee of Experts, was nominated ad interim Agent General of Reparations. Explaining his inability to continue in that office for more than three months, he said: "Only by personal sacrifice can I accept the job, but my interest in the plan is so great and my belief in it so deep that I am willing to do anything I can to get it well started...
...make evident how his countrymen from Minnesota are impressed with him as Senator. In Colorado, the two Senators are running against each other. Senator Phipps (Rep.) is running to succeed himself. Senator Adams (Dem.) was appointed a year ago to succeed the late Senator Nicholson. This was an ad interim appoint- ment until an election should be held. The term of Senator Nicholson does not expire until 1927. But Senator Adams decided not to contest for the remaining two years of the Nicholson term. Instead he will vie with Mr. Phipps for a full six, and let the small...
...active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...
Arms. The League Committee on the Sale of Arms heard the U. S. case stated by Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Minister to Switzerland. The Committee then referred ad interim most of the problems before it to a subcommittee. The Committee met to try to solve U. S. objections to the St. Germain Convention, which aims at binding Governments to control private manufacture and sale of arms and at stopping international traffic in them. It was understood that the U. S. Government considered the control of manufacture and sale of arms by private firms a question for domestic politics...