Longs Peak Chasm Lake Front Climb Marks Milestone
Professor James W. Alexander scales the Chasm Lake east front of Longs Peak and reaches The Summit after nine hours, with Colorado Mountain Club members following. The feat, first ascent in fifty four years, draws attention to Rocky Mountain National Park and its 10,000 foot plus peaks.
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Longs Peak
Chasm Lake
King of the Rockies
Longs
James W. Alexander
T'ahosa
Meeker
Lady Washington
East Gorge
Heaven
Earth
Rocky Mountain National Park
National Parks
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Mount Rainier
Gla
Pikes Peak
Alexander
Princeton University
Jack Moomaw
Hewes- Kirkwood Ranch
Thomases
Colorado Mountain Club
Carl A. Blaurock
Dudley T. Smith
Frank Schirmer
Herbert Wirtman
Hermann Buhl
Nesot-tayah
Z. M. Pike
U. 8S
L. W. Keplinger
Sherman
Atlanta
Kansas City
Kan
Wild Basin
Tahosa Valley
Estes Park
Maj
J. W. Powell
Grand Canyon
Edna Louise Smith
Aurora
National Park Service
Shep Husted
Timber-Line
Boulder Field
Keyhole
Arapahoe Peak
Torreys Peak
Grays Peak
Tariff Commission Reorganized Under 1922 Law
William S Culbertson announces a complete reorganization of the Tariff Commission. Four divisions and new offices in New York are created to handle chief investigator and chief economist led work. An advisory board coordinates staff efforts with scope for foreign investigations. Applications for investigations may be made by anyone. Section 316 supplements tariffs to shield U S industry from unfair import practices.
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Commission
New York
Culbertson
Supporters warn against plan to override Supreme Court
The National Security League launches a nationwide campaign opposing proposed constitutional amendments to empower Congress to override Supreme Court decisions. Its board lists Lindley M. Garrison Myron Herrick Theodore Roosevelt Frederic Coudert John Hammond and others, stressing the Court’s guarding role as essential to liberty and constitutional balance.
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David Jayne Hill
Adolph Lewisohn
Frederick J. Lisman
Morgan J. O’brien
Maj
George Haven Putnam
Louis W. Statesbury
Stanwood Menken
Booth Tarkington
League
National Security League
United States
America
Navy costs gum chewing more than defense says Admiral
Rear Admiral Rogers argues navy spending, though a burden, is justified as wise insurance against future war. He notes regional tax differences, that Mississippi west districts pay less per capita, and that federal taxes form about one third of total taxation. He contrasts gum prices with navy value and urges armed readiness.
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Rogers
Executive Committee
General Board of the Navy
Mississippi
Navy
National American Engineering Museum to Be Established
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the Smithsonian plans a National American Engineering Museum in the National Museum building Washington. A DeLamater Ericsson historical collection will form its nucleus and honor engineers like Cornelius H DeLamater Capt John Ericsson and James B Eads with 1924 dedication of an Ericsson monument near the Lincoln Memorial and Hoover as first engineer in a President’s cabinet.
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N Engineering Museum
South Kensington Museum
London
Arts Et Meliers
Paris
German Museum
Munich
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum
Washington
Society
Cornelius H. DeLamater
Capt
John Ericsson
DeLamater Ironworks
Plac
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
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John Dickinson Sherman
Denver
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Atfairs
Tariff Commission
U. S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
James Bryce
Supreme Court
National American Engineering Museum
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