Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper editorials shrieked, "Francophobe! Sadist!"* But even Frenchmen expressed preference for open antagonism to concealed indifference. At home, people watched Mr. Kellogg wait, recalled that there is nothing in the Constitution to keep Mr. Borah from occupying both his own Senatorial chair and the Secretary of State's seat. If the President would select for his Cabinet the chairman of the leading Congressional Committees, "responsible government," in the sense in which it is understood in Britain ("Mother of Parliaments") would almost instantly be achieved. Last week Senator Borah strode down the dusty...
...earthquake, not wind, last week rocked the chair of Col. Carmi Alderman Thompson, personal representative in the Philippines of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12, THE PRESIDENCY, April 19, July 19 et seq. THE CABINET) as he dined with Mrs. Thompson in a Manila hotel. "Hm-m-m," said Mrs. Thompson, "an earthquake." "Well, we can't help that," answered the Colonel. "Pass the olives." The next day Col. Thompson clambered into his Filipino-financed automobile for a tour of Tayabas province and a two-day visit at the plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like...
Senator James A. Reed, Democratic quizzer extraordinary from Missouri, glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July...
...district attorney, R. K. Hanger, announced that Dr. Norris, like any other Texas indictee; will receive acquittal, a minimum of two years for manslaughter, or the maximum of death in the electric chair, depending on how the twelve good Texas jurymen decide...
...Ellison was out laundering at a neighbor's house. Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving very slowly, pushed back the dress that covered the breast...