Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The House and Senate, in joint session in the House's chamber, went through the ceremonious anachronism of counting the electoral vote and making the official discovery that Herbert Clark Hoover had been elected President, and Charles Curtis Vice President, of the U. S.
Senators, strolling in, took front-row seats. Senator Curtis went for a stroll in the Capitol grounds. His runner-up, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, dallied in the vacant Senate cloak room. Four tellers-California's Shortridge and Utah's King for the Senate; Alabama's Jeffers and...
The Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes. By custom the Vice President's wife presides. But Vice President-Elect Curtis is a widower. His sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, is to serve as his official hostess. Should...
That brought the brothers about even. Perhaps young Ray Lyman even had an edge. He certainly had an edge when Her bert Clark Hoover, his Stanford contem porary, called him to War-time Washington as an assistant. Superior Judge Curtis Dwight remained, augustly but withal provincially, in California, while young...
The War ended, Ray Lyman returned to Stanford and Fate gave the next two spurts to Curtis Dwight. In 1919 he ascended to California's Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put...