Word: publication
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed two bills appropriating $239,740,000 for construction of public buildings, a third appropriating $15,950,000 for war veteran hospitals...
...Southern Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of him and his activities. For the first time the Committee recommended legislation to "protect the public from this type of lobbying...
...proposals, has been telling carriers how they might not consolidate. Its own plan serves to show roads how they now may. The Commission has no power to compel roads to merge in accordance with its plan, which it frankly states is subject to "modification." Since rail consolidations became a public policy in 1920, grave doubts have arisen as to their present necessity. Carriers have improved financially by leaps and bounds, with few weak roads needing the aid of strong ones. The agitation in Congress for additional consolidation legislation is designed to give the roads a sort of power of condemnation...
...international tangle. Already bothered by a bad head cold, he sent the Texas executive a message, promising "to see what, if anything, may be wisely done" and observing further: "The Mexican reason [for the consulate closing] is . . . because they feel that Laredo is not a safe port for their public citizens to pass through. . . . Mexicans find it difficult to understand that you have not found it possible . . . to ameliorate the conduct of legal officers of that country. . . . If any effort can be taken along that line, I wish you would advise...
Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise...