Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manfully to make the capital the model dry city of the land. A month had passed since Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska had gladdened President Hoover by "raising the question" of the President's direct responsibility for law enforcement in the District of Columbia, where he is the chief municipal official (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week's developments in Washington's dry war included...
Sons Astor and Rockefeller made themselves obsequiously useful as assistant secretaries respectively to the British and U. S. delegations. Son MacDonald, himself a delegate, hobnobbed with the chief delegates: Jerome Davis Greene of the U. S. (partner, Lee, Higginson & Co.); Baron Hailsham of Britain (recently Lord Chancellor); Dr. Inazo Nitobe of Japan (onetime Under-Secretary of the League of Nations); Dr. David Z. T. Yui of China (confidential spokesman of the Nationalist Government...
Chinese Dynamite. Instituters are fond of the words "dare" and "dynamite." They boast that at their round tables the unofficial delegates rush in where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered...
Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded...
When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all his properties...