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...Since 1900 the shortest presidential message (8,000 words) was by Calvin Coolidge, the longest (34,980 words) by William Howard Taft. Average length: 15,000 words...
After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...
...minutes later the Cabinet risked a second vote of confidence?not involving the Catholic issue?and increased their majority from 71 to 79. After one of the longest crises in French History, there was again a Government. With Tardieu and Briand in the saddle, the new Cabinet seemed certain to pursue the same conservative financial program and broadly pacific foreign policy which have been standard for three years under the Governments of Poincare (July 1926-July 1929) and Briand (July-October...
...Board's official existence and drew, three months late, its members' first pay checks. On the basis of the Senate vote, Samuel Roy 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...
...reunion. At other times Quarterback Marsters rushed up and down the field with the ball under his arm. Dartmouth 34, Columbia 0. Yale and Brown started a football series 50 years ago, have played 35 times. Until last week Yale had won 29 times. Little Albie Booth, whose longest run was 16 yards, kept running till he made the 30th victory. Yale 14, Brown...