Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy both during the Spanish War and, according to my resignation signed by Josephus Daniels, in the last War which shows that I gave to the United States Government and Great Britain the free use of all my inventions. I then notified Mr. Tucker's editor-in-chief to please instruct his correspondent in Washington to be a little more accurate in his statements...
...Presently Mr. Hoover shook the hand of British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, poet and Principal Private Secretary to James Ramsay MacDonald (and to Prime Minister Baldwin before him). Poet-Secretary Vansittart had just come to pay respects, anticipating his chief's proposed visit next month...
...Tariff, World Court, Arms Reduction and Republican National Committee, he sent his trusted secretary George Akerson to fill his appointment with the press. This Official Spokesman, strikingly Hooveresque in physical appearance, once a news-gatherer himself (Minneapolis Tribune), had nothing of world import to impart. He said that if Chief Justice William Howard Taft intended to resign, the President had not been so informed; and that if Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan* (who had arrived that morning to spend a few days at the White House) were going to become Secretary of Labor when James John Davis retires...
...Japanese newspaper which reached the U. S. last week as a merchandise wrapper: "Mr. Alfred E. Smith, ex-candidate for the presidency of the Democratic Party, has secured one-fifth interest in the management of the Giant baseball team . . . and, according to unconfirmed reports, he will be chosen the chief player of that team."- Senator William Edgar Borah...
Yale blue is the complexion of the U. S. State Department nowadays and Yale blue are the Mexicans' jerseys. Their coach is Reginald Root, burly Yale tackle of 1924-25. He was sponsored by Arthur Bliss Lane, Yale '16. chief of the State Department's Mexican section, and by James Rockwell Sheffield. Yale '87, one-time (1924-27) U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. His presence in Mexico was described as '"'a gesture of good-will." Ambassador Morrow contributed to the necessary fund...