August 25, 2020
Date: September 4, 1928 Location: Superior, WI. (Original document available here) No time has been set yet for my return to Washington, but I expect to return very soon. And […]
Read MoreTags: Farm banks, Illinois American Legion, John Coolidge, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Meyer, Secretary Davis, Senator Schall
August 20, 2020
Date: July 3, 1928 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) The surplus for the fiscal year of $398,000,000 was just about what we had figured it would be. Sometimes […]
Read MoreTags: Debt, Dr. Work, Mr. Hoover, Surplus
June 16, 2020
Date: August 28, 1925 Place: Washington D.C. (Original document available here) I didn’t have a chance to have so long a visit with Mr. Madden as I should have been […]
Read MoreTags: Anti Aircraft Guns Tests, Appropriations and Tax Reduction, Bureau of Mines, Chairman Greene, Colonel Henderson, Combined Surtaxes to 20%, Extraterritoriality, Government Seizure of Mines in Case of Coal Strike, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Madden, Mr. Winston, President’s son John going to Camp Devens Citizen’s Military Training Camp, Reappointment of Major Peyton Gordon as U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia, Revenue Bills, Senator Pepper, State Department and China, Successor to Mr. Bancroft Ambassador to Japan, The Blanket Provision, The Institute of Politics at Williamstown, World Court
May 13, 2020
Date: March 28, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t made any choice yet of any one for the Federal Trade Commission. Here is rather a long […]
Read MoreTags: American Mixed Claims Commission, Arlington Memorial Bridge, Arthur Gilbert Smith, Attorney General Appointment, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Chief Justice Taft, Colonel Sherrill, Daniel Willard, Federal Trade Commission, General Lord, Insurance Commissioner of the District of Columbia, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Miller, Mr. O’Connor, Naval Reserve Conservation, Philippine Independence, Porto Rico, President of the American Steamship Owners Corporation, President of the B & O.O.R., President of the FleetCorporation, Railroad Shipping and Transportation Committee; Secretary of State Palmer, Samuel Knight
May 12, 2020
Date: March 21, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) Here is a question that I can’t answer. It is relative to the preferential rail rate section of the […]
Read MoreTags: Admiral Palmer, Immigration Bill Expiring, Legislation, Merchant Association, Mr. Hoover, Preferential Rail Rate Section of the Shipping Act, Senator Curtis, Senator Smoot, St. Lawrence Waterways, The Shipping Board