Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after Nominee Smith reached Albany he turned his back on politics and went out for a restful game of golf. That same evening, amid the booming of flashlights and headlines, Nominee Hoover arrived in Manhattan. In the Hoover pocket was a speech, probably the most earnestly composed document of his campaign...
Meanwhile Hearstling Horan, released by the police, hurriedly sped to Brussels, Belgium, then London, lest he be again molested. To news colleagues he explained that Mr. Hearst himself gave him the secret document for transmission to the U. S. in the Hearst suite at the Hotel Crillon, Paris, on Sept. 18 last. French cable companies refused to transmit the despatch, so Correspondent Horan mailed it to London, whence it was put on the wire to Manhattan...
Throughout the week London, Paris and Berlin papers speculated at length on "who stole the document?"; and the grave international aspects of the affair were set forth in many a paper, including Berlin's Democratic Morgenpost...
...Whether the official of the French Foreign Office who gave the document to Horan received money from him or not, we don't know. More likely, however, he realized the danger of the agreement to France and wanted to nullify...
...over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily constructed and phrased diplomatic document that has come from Washington for a long time, and that it deserves rank as a masterpiece...