Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Department attaches had long been wondering whether any complaint would be made to Ambassador Dawes about the excessive costliness of his cable messages from London. On diplomatic business the Ambassador has been anything but brief and $400 messages from him to Washington have not been rare. If Statesman Stimson...
Smith Wildman Brookhart, U. S. Senator from Iowa, last week fulfilled a promise to himself and colleagues. He arose in the Senate and told all he had to tell about the "booze-party" at the Willard Hotel in Washington which he and other Senators attended three years ago (TIME, Oct...
Senator Brookhart then read to the Senate a letter he received from one Roger W. Mintone of Boston: "If the enclosed [a press clipping] represents your idea of the ethics of a guest invited to a private dinner?to broadcast tales about his host ?the suspicion that you are...
The Leavenworth outbreak awoke the Federal Government to its prison responsibilities. Though wardens' reports had reiterated figures on overcrowding, the only Federal prison reform of recent years was when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation...
At once arose a judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that...