Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published in Washington, is perhaps the only newspaper in the country which literally prints all news of the Government, and a great deal which no other newspaper would consider news. It is a sort of Congressional Record for the entire Federal machinery, colorless, dispassionate. Last week President Coolidge congratulated David Lawrence, able Washington correspondent and president of the United States Daily, on his newspaper's comprehensive and diagrammatic survey of this machinery; said...
...Hear ye, hear ye . . ." droned Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry as he proclaimed that the Senate was sitting as a court "for the trial of articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives" against George Washington English, U. S. Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Suddenly, under the clock, swinging doors swung; the doorkeeper announced the Managers (appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the prosecution at the bar of the Senate). Four of the eight strode in, headed by Representative Michener of Michigan. He said, as everyone knew he would, that Judge English had handed...
...Four more minutes were consumed while the Senate met as the Senate to swear in David W. Stewart of Iowa as the successor of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, and to hear the announcements and condolences of the deaths of Senators Cummins and Bert M. Fernald of Maine...
After Dramatists Page, Gerard, Tumulty, House, comes Dramatist David Franklin Houston, onetime (1913-20) Secretary of Agriculture; thereafter (1920-21) Secretary of the Treasury, starring War President Wilson. Evidence appears that Secretary Houston stood high in the intimacy of the chief actor whom he served; was heard with respect above other voices at rehearsals; was telephoned for counsel in the night watches, after at least one performance...
...EIGHT YEARS WITH WILSON'S CABINET-David F. Houston- Doubleday, Page & Co. 2 vols...