Word: making
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...
Brisk and businesslike was the annual report issued by Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament last week. Addressed neither to the President-to whom the department is dear-nor the Congress, it was the last of the nine reporting departments to make its statement. Secretary Lament wasted no time in probing the causes of the Depression, made instead the following observations...
What conservative Republican Senators feared most was that the Senate, debating these nominations, would open a general attack upon President Hoover and his Administration's mild attitude toward water power regulation. The make-up of the new Commission became an all-important issue because its membership would determine long-range policies for dealing with the hydroelectric industry. Chief target of attack by insurgent Senators on the old Power Commission has been Frank C. Bonner, its executive secretary. He was accused of "inefficiency," of favoring license-seeking private power companies. Last week Montana's Senator Wheeler unsuccessfully tried...
...Make no mistake; it is not my purpose to belittle what we have done," continued Mr. Gibson. "Although our hopes may thus be disappointed, we can find comfort in the measure of agreement which has been reached in this commission. We can at least foresee a stabilization of armaments, the setting up of a machinery to receive and disseminate information on armaments, to educate public opinion and to prepare systematically for the work of future conferences, as successive milestones in the continuing process of disarmament...
...will go directly from there to the West Indies where it will make a tour during the Christmas vacation. The other members of the all-star team or what teams are to be played in the West Indies could not be discovered yesterday...