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...When I reached the top of the hill, the shooting ended. The nearest vessel was steaming southward and the other was visible only by her small column of smoke and I was unable to determine if this one was fleeing or had halted to attack. Afterward the nearest ship disappeared over the horizon...
...compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally blind in one eye, half-blind in the other, he had been...
...Confederation. . . . Happily, the delegates chose to be guided by Washington's advice: 'It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hands...
...Texas oil fields to New Jersey. Reason: the plates (at least 430,000 tons) could better be used for ships and freight cars. But no formal vote was taken and the pipeline project was by no means knocked out once for all. SPAB's potent Henderson said afterward that he still favored the project-as do the Army, Navy and President Roosevelt. So Ickes' pipeline may yet cause the first open fight inside SPAB...
...Years Afterward. Next month Henry Stimson will be 74; but any suggestion that he is in any way senile is completely refuted by those who know him, and drives ranking Army officers to profane denial. His daily program of physical activity would be strenuous for a man 25 years younger. In twelve months he has made eleven field inspections of the Army, but his activities in Washington are equally strenuous...