Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State, Mr. Kellogg, was put in the embarrassing position of having to initiate policies that properly belonged to his successor. However, President Hoover relieved Mr. Kellogg's embarrassment as far as possible by announcing that the Mexican policy of the Coolidge administration would be continued. Secretary Kellogg shuttled back and forth to the White House daily to consult the President, and likewise conferred with the new Secretary of War, Mr. Good...
Lindbergh, Again. Col. Lindbergh, who gallivanted down to Mexico City to visit his fiancee, last week, flew to Brownsville, Tex., with air mail and back to Mexico City, the first round trip over the new air mail route...
Publisher Van Leer Black of the Baltimore Sunpapers, jaunting in Africa, reached Capetown last week and turned back for England...
...head of the air parade that floated in among the clouds over the White House on Inauguration Day was the dirigible Los Angeles and four blimps. When the parade was over the Los Angeles soared back through the murk and storm to Lakehurst, N.J. Of the four blimps, one belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were unable, on account of the weather, to return to their bases at Langley Field, Va., and Lakehurst...
Nurse Emily Stewart bustled about, last week, in a large, bright hotel suite at Geneva, Switzerland, tending a sparkling-eyed gentleman of 84. Her charge, she knew, had been Secretary of War of the U. S. way back in the days of President William McKinley. In fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...