Presidents Cabinet Roles and Cabinet Officers
An analysis of how U S presidents select and use cabinet officers. It notes that the nine department heads form the president’s closest advisers and that personal influence and expertise shape national policy. Roosevelt favored specialist cabinet meetings while McKinley held broader state council style sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate of the
John Sherman
Hayes
Stanton
War Department
Lincoln
Grant
Cleveland
Harrison
McKinley
Roosevelt
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
James G. Blaine
John Hay
Presi
Det
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Pekin
Leprosy in America and a proposed leper home plan
An article surveys the spread of leprosy across about 20 states with Louisiana bearing the highest numbers. It recounts Senator Crane’s proposed government supervision and a bill to locate a leper colony, later renamed a leper home, and argues for isolation and study to pursue a cure while noting Hawaii's Molokai facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orient
Asiatic
Pacific
United States
Louisiana
California
Florida
Minnesota
North Dakota
W. M. Crane
Hoar
Congress
Senate
Rodey
New Mexico
Crane
Hawaii
Molokai
Wealth of the Cullinan Diamond Trade Unveiled
A detailed look at diamond cutting from Cullinan rough to finished necklace. Carvers, bruteurs, and polishers in Europe shape a 200000 dollar Paris necklace, outlining profits, wages, and the global labor force from Amsterdam to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Southampton
Cullinan
Johannesburg
South Africa
Scotland Yard
Paris
Mouutine
Europe
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Jura
America
Montmartre
Gaillon
United States
A Simple Way to Remove a Tight Ring
A quick method uses a piece of small cord placed beneath the ring. Wind the cord around the finger from under the ring toward the fingertip, then unwind the cord to slide the ring off as it travels along with the unwinded cord.
Have Several Lives
A mountain guide and visitor trade lines about the valley below. The guide notes that people with weak lungs often die at this height, while the visitor comments on the country and climate. The guide remains skeptical about reviving them for the next dying.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry
Bent McKinley
Far East
Elihu Root
Sherman
Wash
D.C
Taft
Wilson
Hay
Morton
Hitchcock
Moody
Lepers
Senator Crane
Massachusetts
Walls OF Jerusalem
Milady
Napoleon
Josephine
Mme. Humbert
Boss” Tweed
New York
Lady Hope
Alvin Justinems
Maurice Bower
Vane Waar
Ernest
Haskell
Eugene P. Lyle, Jr
John Dinwiddie Driscoll
Maximilian
Mexico
Jacqueline
St. Louis Republic
N. Y
N. Y. Globe
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16Th St
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