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President Roosevelt provides Leslie M. Shaw with lists of the Commissioners “to test and examine the weight and fineness of the coins reserved at the several mints during the calendar year 1902.”
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1903-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs J. E. Ralph that Roosevelt cannot grant or increase his pension, and Ralph should get in touch with the Pensions Bureau in Washington, D.C.
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1912-06-24
President Roosevelt responds to Baron Desborough’s request for a United States commissioner to the Olympic Games which will be held in London shortly. Roosevelt has appointed James E. Sullivan as the United States Commissioner.
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1908-07-03
With regret, President Roosevelt accepts Commissioner Richards resignation. Roosevelt thanks Richards for his ten years of service and wishes him well for the future.
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1907-03-04
President Roosevelt has received Senator Scott’s letter, and remarks that he hopes that Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Watson Yerkes’s sickness is temporary. Roosevelt would not like to make any statements about a possible successor to Yerkes, as he hopes “there is no immediate likelihood of a vacancy.”
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1906-07-06
President Roosevelt wonders how Alfred Treadway White would do as the Immigration Commissioner, and whether he would accept the position.
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1901-11-27
President Roosevelt wonders how A. T. White would do as the Immigration Commissioner, and whether he would accept the position.
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1901-11-27
Paul Charlton discusses the possibility of employing Chinese labor in the construction of the Panama Canal.
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1906-06-29
William Nelson Cromwell writes to Secretary of War Taft regarding an article published in the Chicago Chronicle. The article reported on the relationship between Cromwell and Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the Isthmanian Canal Commission, and other events in Panama. Cromwell asserts to Taft that many assumptions in the article are false.
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1905-12-23
William J. Calhoun accepts the appointment of special commissioner for the investigation. Calhoun hopes to clear up all his business matters next week so he can begin.
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1905-07-07
Board of Commissioners official MacFarland writes to President Roosevelt regarding a letter from Patent Office clerk and critic Benjamin P. Mann.
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1905-07-06
A note states that Clemens Herschel has the endorsement of Senator Thomas Collier Platt for Engineer Commissioner. Item contains shorthand.
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1902-06-23
Secretary of War Root writes to President Roosevelt in reference to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission and the number of commissioners needed to care for battlefield parks.
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1903-08-18