Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specific agreements as to the Navy's needs. Representing the State Department has been Undersecretary Joseph Potter Cotton, onetime Manhattan lawyer. Out of these State-Navy conferences last week came this story: Undersecretary Cotton, impatient with the Navy's attitude on cruiser design and gun effectiveness, remarked across the council table: "If I could not design a cruiser with six-inch guns that could whip a cruiser with eight-inch guns, I'd go and jump out of the window." Bang went the fist of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams upon the council table. "Then...
...white flag was run up over the Republican ramparts on the tariff battlefield in the Senate last week, but the Democratic and Progressive Republican warriors, their honor stung by vile names hurled at them across the trenches, refused to cease firing...
...first day the celebrating Nebraskans paraded. Governor Arthur J. Weaver led off. Behind him came a history: Francisco Vasquez Coronado. who in 1541, looking for El Dorado, discovered Nebraska; Indians, led by Crow Chief Max Big Man; prairie schooners; oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
...pulling papers from the presses) in the press room of the New York Mirror. Then he was a reporter on the San Francisco Call. Last year he left the University of California to go to Manhattan as police reporter for the American, became city hall reporter, then worked across the desk from Editor Stanton Arthur Coblentz until his father thought him ready to learn to be president. Since he has been in charge, coincidence or not, the American's circulation has risen from...